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Devcon 8, It's a Wrap!

Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

12 years of Devcon (/connect) attendance, first time representing Dark Bio! It has been a wonderful event like always, kudos to the organizer team, the volunteers and everyone coming to Mumbai to meet and greet.

We’ve been given the opportunity to do a few talks, and ended up accepting two slots only, to keep our own sanity :D Apologies for the ones we turned down, we really appreciated the possibility!

ArkOS 0.13: Variants and Samples

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We’ve just released ArkOS 0.13.1, along with a large set of associated tooling. For the observant among you, we skipped 0.13.0. It was signed, but a last-minute API change made us pull it.

ArkOS 0.13.1 is a significant feature release. It ships support for the structural and copy number genomic variant files; extends the biofs API surface and example apps with new types of genomic queries. Comes with tools that can seed an Ark with any of 3,202 sample genomes for testing.

Dark Bio Platform Hands-on

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dark Bio has been in development for quite a while now, so we’ve figured it is an opportune moment to reveal more on where we are, where we are going, and what you can play with… today.

TL;DR: ChatGPT turns a Nature paper¹ into an analysis against my genome.

The above demo is pretty much the end-game of the Dark Bio platform. While it works, there is a lot of magic going on behind the scenes. So let’s try to unpack it from the ground up.