"Basecamp Research is launching what it calls the "Trillion Gene Atlas," an initiative aimed at generating and modeling biological data at the trillion-gene scale. According to the company, the project-developed in collaboration with Anthropic, Ultima Genomics and PacBio, and powered by Nvidia's AI infrastructure-aims to expand what we know about genetic diversity 100-fold by collecting genomic data from more than 100 million species across thousands of sites worldwide."
"Cofounders Glen Gowers and Oliver Vince found that two-thirds of the samples they hauled back to a makeshift lab in Iceland had never been recorded before. That experience led them to take a bet on building what they describe as an "internet of biology" for AI models to train on. It was a moonshot-an effort to capture 4.4 billion years of evolution and map the entire tree of life."
Basecamp Research, a U.K. biotech company founded on Arctic expeditions discovering new species, is launching the Trillion Gene Atlas in collaboration with Anthropic, Ultima Genomics, and PacBio. The initiative aims to generate and model biological data at trillion-gene scale, expanding genetic diversity knowledge 100-fold by collecting genomic data from over 100 million species across thousands worldwide sites. Powered by Nvidia's AI infrastructure, this ambitious project represents Basecamp's continued effort to build an "internet of biology" for AI model training. The company has raised $85 million in venture capital and continues pursuing its moonshot goal of mapping the entire tree of life, capturing 4.4 billion years of evolution.
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