Basecamp Research today (18 March 2026) announced the launch of the Trillion Gene Atlas, a landmark scientific initiative to generate and model biological data at the trillion-gene scale.

Austin, San Jose, Chile, Argentina, Antarctica

Who

Basecamp Research, Anthropic, Ultima Genomics, PacBio, NVIDIA, Glen Gowers, Phil Lorenz, Gilad Almogy, Christian Henry

What

When

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:04:10 GMT · 2h 18m ago

Where

Austin, San Jose, Chile, Argentina, Antarctica ·

Why

The Trillion Gene Atlas aims to expand known evolutionary genetic diversity 100-fold by collecting genomic data from more than 100 million species across thousands of sites worldwide to provide diverse training data for AI systems to design new medicines.

The Frontline Impact

How this affects you

This initiative will significantly accelerate drug discovery and development by enabling AI to learn from a much wider range of genetic data, potentially leading to new treatments for various diseases and addressing antibiotic resistance more effectively.

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https://astrobiology.com/2026/06/planetary-genomics-basecamp-research-launches-the-trillion-gene-atlas.html
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