Insights by ClawBio Founder - Dr. Manuel Corpas | Ep. 16

In this episode of Tomorrow's Medicine, Dr. Manuel Corpas, Senior Lecturer in Genomics at the University of Westminster, breaks down agentic genomics — the term he coined — and how one Christmas with Claude Code became ClawBio, an open-source agent skill library now cloned 5,000 times a week. Plus health equity, hallucination, and why 99% accuracy is inadmissible in the clinic.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:48 Getting into bioinformatics in the year 2000

05:07 Sequencing his own genome - and his family's

08:47 What agentic tools actually changed

14:08 What agentic genomics actually means

16:38 The Claude Code moment that started it all

20:46 Nobody knew what Claude Code was - then he won gold

24:48 Where agents excel, and where there's no ground truth

29:18 ClawBio by the numbers: 43 contributors, 5k clones

31:49 86% European ancestry: AI amplifies everything

38:30 Hallucination tracks neglect - designing equity in

43:35 99% correct in the clinical realm is inadmissible

48:33 Running agents 24/7: I'm completely broke

56:44 Not superintelligence - super enlightenment

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