Marcus Leung

Today we announce a series of milestones: We're thrilled to share our $60M Series B funding, led by @singular__ including @S32_VC, @redalpine, @trueventures & @HummingbirdVC! We'll scale data collection & enhance AI with this oversubscribed round. Read more:…

At @Basecamp_Res we're pioneering a collaborative model that benefits both innovative companies and the communities helping expand our biological knowledge. This win-win approach lets companies use AI trained on larger, diverse data with consent.📽️ Watch: bit.ly/3XMt2b2

Proud to have been a part of this preprint with my teammates here @Basecamp_Res Breaking Through Biology's Data Wall: Expanding the Known Tree of Life by Over 10x using a Global Biodiscovery Pipeline biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

AI sees differently. But when most of the data looks the same, there's not much for it to learn. That’s the case in biology—where a staggering 68% of all sequence data in the SRA comes from just five species. 🧬 (1/N)

🧬 News alert: We’re bringing BaseData out of stealth — the world’s largest and fastest growing biodiscovery dataset, built in collaboration with scientists across 26 countries. 🔍 BaseData adds 9.8 billion newly discovered protein sequences to the known tree of life — expanding…

🏔️ @BioMedCentral's Environmental Biome journal has published a groundbreaking collaboration by the @BAS_News & @Basecamp_Res. It examines the impact of sewage and wastewater from increased Antarctic tourism on antimicrobial resistance near the shores of the Earth's last great…

Heading to #JPM2025? 🧬 @Basecamp_Res Co-founder and CEO @glen_gowers, CCO Anupama Hoey & new CSO John Finn will be there, meeting partners and exploring new collaborations. 📅 If you’d like to meet in San Francisco, contact us at [email protected]

Though our work differs greatly from @netflix , @Basecamp_Res shares one similarity: Our data is growing exponentially, by an order of magnitude every year. As we expand our biodiscovery programme with the aim of creating a digital twin🌍of the natural world, our sequence data…

🦾@Basecamp_Res Deep Learning Scientists @GeraldeneM49733 and @NotGavinAyres presented last night at the Gen AI Innovators London event presented by @weights_biases. They shared how Basecamp Research trains AI models using our knowledge graph, which gathers 10x more data than…

🌱@SkyNews interviewed @glen_gowers about why AI and biodiversity partnerships are crucial for unlocking the next generation of life-saving medicines – as global leaders, conservation specialists, and pharmaceutical firms meet at the #COP16Colombia @UNBiodiversity talks, which to…

I am currently looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Computational #Protein Engineer to join my team in the @Basecamp_Res HQ in London UK. More info in the link linkedin.com/jobs/view/4061…

Happy to see my early contributions from my post-doc years featured in a recent publication. Congratulations to my old lab and the @metasub global consortium microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

We're also announcing that @Basecamp_Res and the laboratory of Dr. David R. Liu at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have begun collaborating on new approaches to genetic medicines. Read more here: bit.ly/47XvT3K

Who wins from nature’s genetic bounty? The billions at stake in a global ‘biopiracy’ battle theguardian.com/environment/ar…

🧬@Basecamp_Res CTO Philipp Lorenz will speak about Foundation Models in Biology and Fact vs. Fiction in GenAI for Bio at @decodingbio's AI x Bio Summit this week at @NYSE

🗞️@MyBioTechniques spoke to @phoebefordd about crisscrossing the world – from ice caps to rainforests – collecting samples, why consent is key & how biodiversity data makes AI better. Read it here: bit.ly/4bF56d1 (free registration) #BioAI #COP16 #biotechinnovation

Medical news site @statnews covered @Basecamp_Res making enzyme design programmable and how we're applying our data advantage to help therapeutics companies and other industries accelerate their scientific discovery #WEF2024Tech #AIDiscovery #zymCTRL

📢@Basecamp_Res is excited to share ZymCTRL, a world-first, open-source, text-based enzyme-generation model on @HuggingFace! ▶️ Watch @GeraldeneM49733 and @Ferruz_Noelia explain how it works here: youtu.be/Eq15voCBeNc And to download the model visit bit.ly/3KPDKWE

Consent is key to great AI. At @Basecamp_Res, we've shown you can create cutting-edge AI while ethically sourcing 100% of the data. We built the largest biodiversity database and can trace each data point not only to the land owner’s consent but also a benefits-sharing agreement

Bio AI needs data—and only so much biodiversity grows in labs🔬 At @AWSstartups Healthcare & Life Sciences Byte Night, Philipp Lorenz explained that's why @Basecamp_Res travelled to extreme environments in 25 countries to build the world's largest biodiversity dataset.