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.

13.7 °C in the water off Manchester, Puget Sound, Sep 13 10:48 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.

The Pathogen Has a Plan, the Hosts Do Not
Now that Vibrio pectenicida FHCF-3 is the confirmed agent of sea star wasting disease, an obvious question follows: why do some sea stars die and…
_{Sep 11, 2026 · Genomics}

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}

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