I first learned about Arcadia from https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/ blog as a “evolutionary biology” startup. When I looked they only had their fungal capsid negative result published.
I’m quite optimistic about the potential for data mining from phylogenomic inference, but I wouldn’t have described any of their current projects as “blue-sky” or “high variance” like mentioned in the post. I’m not sure that generating data, competing with large government-funded research hubs, is effective. Maybe there’s scope away from human health research areas which are overrepresented, but that’s also probably the most directly marketable area.
Does Altos Labs come under this umbrella? They seem successful and/or very good at marketing.
Yeah Arcadia is definitely less on the blue-sky/high-variance realm of the spectrum, and closer to ‘better research in underserved areas of biology’.
I was pondering adding Altos Labs here, alongside Retro Bio and Newlimit, but they do feel a bit different from others here given the strong focus on a for-profit system (Arcadia’s for-profit focus is a bit more opportunistic).
Have any of them discovered anything?
Arc probably has discovered the most influential thing: https://arcinstitute.org/news/news/bridge
Arcadia Science has a grab bag of a bunch of interesting stuff: https://research.arcadiascience.com/
Everyone else is a bit too new to have released many interesting things
I first learned about Arcadia from https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/ blog as a “evolutionary biology” startup. When I looked they only had their fungal capsid negative result published.
I’m quite optimistic about the potential for data mining from phylogenomic inference, but I wouldn’t have described any of their current projects as “blue-sky” or “high variance” like mentioned in the post. I’m not sure that generating data, competing with large government-funded research hubs, is effective. Maybe there’s scope away from human health research areas which are overrepresented, but that’s also probably the most directly marketable area.
Does Altos Labs come under this umbrella? They seem successful and/or very good at marketing.
Yeah Arcadia is definitely less on the blue-sky/high-variance realm of the spectrum, and closer to ‘better research in underserved areas of biology’.
I was pondering adding Altos Labs here, alongside Retro Bio and Newlimit, but they do feel a bit different from others here given the strong focus on a for-profit system (Arcadia’s for-profit focus is a bit more opportunistic).