# plantimals.org

> Rob Long's personal site: sovereign information flows, industrial genomics, distributed systems, complexity, and nostr protocol work

Rob Long is a technologist based in St. Louis, Missouri, focused on sovereign information flows, industrial genomics, distributed systems, RSS, paleontology, art, and pattern languages. He has extensive experience organizing large-scale genomic datasets for biotechnology at Bayer Crop Science and is currently working on decentralizing information flows through the nostr protocol ecosystem.

Nostr pubkey: npub1mkq63wkt4v94cvq869njlwpszwpmf62c84p3sdvc2ptjy04jnzjs20r4tx ( nip05: rob@buildtall.com )

## Core Pages

- [About](https://plantimals.org/about/): Background in industrial genomics, work at Bayer Crop Science on 15,000-node GKE clusters for genotype imputation, podcast appearances
- [Now](https://plantimals.org/now/): Current focus on nostr ecosystem projects (drss.io, npub.blog, npub.dev)
- [Works](https://plantimals.org/works/): Complexity and generative art projects including logistic map visualization, cellular automata explorers, sierpinski triangles, and genomics tools
- [Century Books](https://plantimals.org/100/): Curated list of 100 books read repeatedly, following the philosophy of going deep rather than wide. Includes classics across philosophy, science fiction, complexity science, and stoicism
- [Nostr](https://plantimals.org/nostr/): Introduction to the nostr protocol, its impact on decentralized social networks, client and relay recommendations, NIP05 setup

## Projects

- [2vcf](https://github.com/plantimals/2vcf): Convert personal genomics data from 23andme or ancestry.com to VCF format for imputation and IBD calling
- [Logistic Map Visualization](https://plantimals.org/chaos/): Interactive deep-zoom exploration of population dynamics and chaos theory, rendered in Go with OpenSeadragon
- [Loom of Chaos](https://plantimals.org/care.html): Cellular automata rule explorer allowing real-time rule changes across 256 possible configurations
- [Sierpinski Triangles](https://plantimals.org/sierpinski.html): Fractal generation through simple iteration
- [Command-line Cellular Automata](https://github.com/arrogantrobot/cacurses): ncurses-based CLI cellular automata rule explorer in Python
- [Genome Scroller](https://github.com/arrogantrobot/genome_scroller): Display genome sequences as scrolling text to communicate scale (88 days to view entire human genome at default speed)
- [tinukajazojipodi](https://plantimals.org/posts/tinukajazojipodi/): Generative phrase creator with text-to-speech for Mac OSX

## Nostr Ecosystem

- [drss.io](https://drss.io): Bridge between RSS and nostr, enabling bidirectional content flow
- [npub.blog](https://npub.blog): Reader for nostr long-form content
- [npub.dev](https://npub.dev): Tool for configuring outbox relays
- wss://relay.drss.io: is where you can read my content, though write your own


## External Links

- [Bayer Crop Science GKE Article](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/google-kubernetes-engine-clusters-can-have-up-to-15000-nodes): Blog post co-authored with Google Kubernetes Engineers on industrial genomics work
- [PAG XXVIII Conference Abstract](https://intlpag.org/2020/images/pdf/2020/PAGXXVIII-abstracts-workshops.pdf#page=116): Talk on industrializing genotype data on public cloud infrastructure
- [Vance Crowe Podcast #72](https://share.transistor.fm/s/d8453b4f): First appearance
- [Vance Crowe Podcast #82](https://share.transistor.fm/s/e273ff9f): Second appearance
- [Vance Crowe Podcast #133](https://www.vancecrowe.com/interviews-blogs/rob-long-crypto-ipfs-sims-fitness-landscapes): Discussing crypto, IPFS, and fitness landscapes
- [Shaun Newman Podcast #161](https://www.shaunnewmanpodcast.com/podcast-1/episode/2b131638/episode-161-rob-long): Interview with Rob Long

## Optional

- [NIP05 Configuration](https://plantimals.org/.well-known/nostr.json): Nostr identity verification
- [VR Photospheres](https://plantimals.org/vr/360/): Full inner-sphere panorama photos implemented in WebXR using A-Frame
- [Diffusion Limited Aggregation](https://plantimals.org/posts/diffusion-limited-aggregation/): Implementation of DLA algorithm modeling physical processes
- [African Kinship Reunion Collaboration](https://takir.org/2019/08/29/takir-uses-the-h3africa-array-with-2-26-million-markers/): Using 2vcf for personal genomics conversion