Why Catalase?
"So it's a hangover cure then?", said Brendan.
Well, uh, no, that wasn't why I called my company after the enzyme Catalase. I had other reasons.
SeqQuests
SeqQuests is a new collection of bioinformatics software. It is at an early stage.
- Optimised for Apple silicon: A fast Smith-Waterman amino acid sequence comparison.
- Dual architecture: Scriptable command-line utilities (python) with optional web-browser/API-endpoint interfaces
- ~20 twilight zone findings: These suggest database annotation updates.
About Catalase Systems
Catalase explores organizing principles in engineered and biological systems - patterns that repeat across scales and domains.
To learn more contact: enquiries@catalase.com
Latest Posts
Getting a Forty-Year Head Start
Barbara McClintock's 1940s observations on transposable elements were dismissed for four decades. Her 'jumping genes' were unthinkable. She eventually received the Nobel Prize in 1983. The prevailing mindset, not her meticulous science, was wrong.
Such patterns repeat across science. Let us identify what's unthinkable today, but that will be taken as a given tomorrow.
For Human Thriving...
AI is enabling advances in science, technology and engineering. The problem is that as we get better at working with knowledge, we gain more power.
This will bring very good and very bad things. The correct approach is to try to ensure that more of the good things happen sooner.