I'm Steven — I work at the University of Washington, where I study shellfish, genomes, and the places those two things collide. Nearly everything I do ends up in a repo somewhere: code, data, half-finished analyses, and the occasional idea that didn't survive contact with the data.

13.8 °C in the water off Manchester, Puget Sound, Aug 21 08:24 local, via NOAA CO-OPS Tacoma, WA.

That number is real, and it's a decent indicator of where I am. If I've gone quiet on here, odds are I'm standing in it — out at a shellfish farm doing the part of this job that no amount of compute will do for me.

Whatever comes of either half — a methylation signal, a genome assembly that finally behaves, or a bag of oysters that didn't — gets written up here.

62 CpGs Separate Quihua From Rio Pudeto
Having settled which Ostrea chilensis assembly to point at, the next question is whether the whole-genome bisulfite data actually says anything…
_{Aug 21, 2026 · Epigenetics · Genomics}

Three Ostrea chilensis Assemblies Walk Into a Dot Plot
There are three Ostrea chilensis genome files floating around this project: the two haplotype assemblies from the annotation contract (Och_HapA…
_{Aug 20, 2026 · Genomics · Computing}

What Genes Reveal About Sea Star Wasting Disease
Sea star wasting disease has wiped out huge numbers of sea stars along the Pacific coast over the last decade. The sunflower star was hit so hard it…
_{Jul 10, 2026 · Transcriptomics · Genomics}

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