Episode 16: From No Codex to One Codex

Nick Greenfield, M.A., is the founder and CEO of One Codex, a microbial genomics software company based in San Francisco, California. One Codex is the leading microbial genomics and metagenomics platform, and has received awards from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Department of Defense (DoD) as well as been recognized by the White House National Microbiome Initiative. At One Codex, Nick leads the development of the company's bioinformatics and software technology, and oversees the company's efforts in application areas including infectious disease diagnostics, microbiome R&D, and public health. Prior to One Codex, Nick worked as a software engineer and data scientist on a variety of machine learning and scientific computing problems. Nick holds a B.A. in International Relations and a M.A. in Environmental Studies from Brown University.

David Yarmosh is a lead bioinformatician in ATCC’s Sequencing and Bioinformatics Center. He’s a graduate of New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. He has been working in large data aggregation and analysis since 2013 and microbial genomics with a focus on biosurveillance R&D efforts since 2016. David has led international training exercises in Peru and Senegal, sharing metagenomic analytical capabilities. His interests include genomics database construction, metadata collection, drug resistance mechanisms, bioinformatics standards, and machine learning. Since joining ATCC in 2020, David has worked extensively in SARS-CoV-2 classification, epidemiology, and genomics evaluation, including enhanced and uniform variant reporting. He has contributed more broadly to genomics reporting and analytical standardization and he has helped develop the podcast Behind the Biology, which he now hosts.