The story, in plain language
Pick a chapter. Every dotted word is clickable. Every "+" opens a deeper layer. Skim or dive.
Live results
Computed from the committed result tables in this repo. Nothing on this page is typed in by hand.
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Try it: a toy classifier
This is a teaching toy with three made-up mini genomes, not real data. It shows the core idea behind k-mer classifiers such as Kraken2: chop a read into short words, look each word up, let the words vote.
What goes wrong, and how to notice
Collected from every research area.
The same problem in other fields
Analogies from law, medicine, art and more, each with the place the analogy breaks, and stories of how others solved similar problems.
Untried or under-tried ideas
These are ideas to test, not findings.
Glossary
Every term used on this page.
Timeline of the field
Dev log
How this project was actually built, including what broke.
Sources and unverified items
Every source the research agents cite. Anything they could not verify is listed separately rather than stated as fact.