Preview of GenomicEpi.com 2.0

Coming to a website near you

Hard to believe we’re already in 2026, but here we are. My youngest likes to remind me that I’m from the late 1900’s. Wow, brutal.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand here, which is a complete overhaul of the genomicepi.com website. I started the site nearly 4 years ago, and 74 commits later I’m nearly ready to roll out a complete rewrite. I started out because I wanted to pull together resources for the community, and also as someone who had recently moved from government to the private sector, I felt freed from having to think about whether my personal musings met the communication practices of the agency. For the first time in my career I could share my experiences, ideas, and dreams as often as I had the time, energy, and inclination.

Besides the benefit to the community, I found one of the main benefits to me was in forcing myself to build my technical skills. I scoured blog posts on how to use R/Quarto to build a website, learned how to get it hosted on github pages, and how to connect my own domain to the github site. Those were important steps for me to learn, and helped continue to spark my curiosity to continue learning.

The glow up

Okay, cheesy section header, but it came up in conversation today and seemed appropriate. I’ve retained some of the pieces of the old website but presented them all in a little bit different way. For example the training database is still hosted in Airtable, but I’m using the Airtable API to bring in the trainings rather than just embedding the Airtable view in an iframe.

One of my favorite updates is the addition of a publications page. This is a far from exhaustive list of some of my favorite publications - I’ve got 30 in there so far and hope to grow it quite a bit. At first I was manually adding papers, but quickly realized that was a terrible idea. After a bit of brainstorming I ended up creating a Zotero folder, and now I can just add papers to my Zotero account, give them one of the 6 tags I created to group the papers, and then the next time I run the script to update the website, all the new papers will be included. Wayyyy more sustainable going forward!

How you can help

I haven’t released the update version to the main site yet, but you can preview it at next.genomicepi.com! There are options on most of the pages for users to submit things such as publications, trainings, or graduate programs. The more community input, the better! In addition to submitting those, I’d love to hear your feedback about new sections you’d like to see, suggestions for the website in general (okay, I know the colors are a little, well, colorful - I might change that in the future, but for now, I like it!). You can comment on the subtack post, email, or find me on LinkedIn.

Thanks for reading, and look forward to hearing your feedback!