Genetics
Mapping heritable variation and the traits it drives, from single genes to whole populations.
Read more →A non-profit initiative exploring genetics, DNA, bioinformatics and computational biology — published as we go, not after the fact.
Aven Research is an independent, non-profit lab studying the genome as both a biological and computational object. We work in the open: every project publishes its stage, its methods, and its setbacks, not just its conclusions.
Ten active areas of inquiry, spanning wet-lab biology and the computational tools built to interpret it.
Mapping heritable variation and the traits it drives, from single genes to whole populations.
Read more →Sequencing, editing, and reading the molecule that stores the instructions for life.
Read more →Turning raw sequence data into structure, function, and testable hypotheses.
Read more →Tracing mutation pathways to find earlier detection points and targeted therapies.
Read more →Models that learn the patterns biology hides in noisy, high-dimensional data.
Read more →Simulating molecular interactions to shorten the road from target to treatment.
Read more →Studying how variants spread, drift, and persist across generations.
Read more →Engineering biological systems the way we engineer circuits and software.
Read more →Precision editing tools and the safety work that has to accompany them.
Read more →Applying prediction models to diagnosis, prognosis, and clinical decision support.
Read more →A snapshot of active work, its current stage, and who is leading it.
Short-form updates, findings and reasoning behind the work — published as it happens.
Non-coding regions were dismissed for decades. Here is what changed our minds.
A lab-notes walkthrough of the architecture behind our early-onset marker project.
Why our South Asia dataset took eighteen months longer than planned, on purpose.
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