1000 Beer Genomes

28/08/2017

Using the world’s first portable DNA lab to sequence beer is a cool thing to do. [...] But the ability to sequence DNA in your living room has staggering implications for the planet and humanity’s place on it.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/08/25/yourself-dna-right-ahead/zHy8Tw3MPSDzFRAOow3ZLM/story.html

Using the world’s first portable DNA lab to sequence beer is a cool thing to do.

07/08/2017

Presented at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2017 in Prague.

29/07/2017

Breaking. We released 7 Gb of beer DNA data at the BOSC scientific conference. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/489252126/beerdecoded-the-1000-beer-genomes/posts/1945959

15/02/2017

Dear all,Last weekend, we brought all your beers at the Open Food Hackdays. We analysed their molecular profile. We traced a molecular tree with all your beers and created a working prototype of the web-app.It is live. You can try it. It works on google chrome. Go find your beer on the tree. On May…

25/08/2016

One sip of ice-cold summer beer contains traces of about 500 microorganisms, according to BeerDeCoded, an organisation studying the DNA found in the popular beverage. “We want to create a genomic t…

15/06/2016

We enter the sequencing room... 3 short updates about beer & DNA. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/489252126/beerdecoded-the-1000-beer-genomes/posts/1605150

Hello, three short updates:One. Our 96 DNA samples have left Hackuarium and have been accepted at the Center of Integrative Genomics of the University of Lausanne, where they will be sequenced somewhen in July - hopefully sooner!Two. We are not alone in the quest to map beer DNA, we just discovered…

28/05/2016

Counterfeiting impacts Italian Homebrewer market.

ATTENZIONE!
Purtroppo abbiamo riscontrato la presenza di etichette contraffatte con il nostro marchio su prodotti che non sono stati immessi sul mercato da noi. In caso troviate prodotti simili a quelli della foto a destra, vi preghiamo di darcene immediata comunicazione. In questo modo vogliamo tutelare i consumatori dall'acquisto e utilizzo di prodotti di dubbia provenienza e qualità.
Grazie per l'attenzione!

21/05/2016

An infographic explaining the differences between Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus and Pediococcus.

18/05/2016

After decoding Champagne's 1,000 flavor profiles with gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, Ava startup is trying to turn water into synthetic wine in 15 minutes. It smells like shark pool, but synthetic enology will be a thing.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2088322-synthetic-wine-made-without-grapes-claims-to-mimic-fine-vintages

The world's first fruit-free

21/04/2016

Folks, it’s crunch time. With 3 hours left, we're calling in all the ammo we can get!
Spare us your benevolence, and pledge £1 towards the Bento Lab campaign => http://kck.st/1o4egHM

Why - not because we could make a beer DNA kit for them, but because your support means that our partners get to stand in front of disbelieving old men, and say “Yes, actually hundreds of people do support citizen science and access to DNA education.”

It means we get to work with more amazing creative people, who share citizen science, and decode the DNA of beer and fungi.

It means we get to bring genetics education to more classrooms, from England to Haiti.

3 hours left. Tomorrow is too late. Make it happen. Now.

The link => http://kck.st/1o4egHM

Bento Lab is a DNA lab that you can take anywhere. Get hands-on with genetics straight away.

13/04/2016

This is exciting. We will develop a kit to decode beer for any Bento Lab user if their campaign reaches 700 backers. We count already 509 ones and 8 days to go.

We are now in the final third of the campaign. Your support and generosity has been absolutely amazing. For the last 10 days, there are two more stretch goals to be unlocked:Hitting 600 backers: Starter Kit upgrade to explore beer Help us develop a new experiment for the Starter Kit! We will partner…

25/03/2016