$ curl https://api.anthropic.com/v1/models --header "x-api-key: $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" --header "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01"
{"type":"error","error":{"type":"not_found_error","message":"Not found"}}
Edit: Tried creating a different API key and it works with that one. Weird.
I think this is starting to change. Next-generation sequencers and other imaging devices are causing more wet labs to produce massive amounts of data – which is increasing the number of companies hiring for bioinformatics roles.
I don't think anyone has really figured out commercialization in the space yet – us included. The community is still rooted strongly in academia, so commercializing requires a delicate balance between profitability and openness.
I imagine it's what building dev tools was like a couple decades ago. It's fun to see the field grow and evolve.
Candidly, we haven't figured out how to do international remote work well. Hopefully we will in the future!
FlowDeploy builds dev tools for bioinformatics, and we're looking for a product-minded software engineer and a bioinformatics engineer. I think a former or future founder would do well in this role.
Curiosity matters more than domain-specific experience in bioinformatics, although some bioinformatics context is helpful: understanding if what you've built solves a problem requires talking to users and understanding them.
You would be working in a few key areas of our product:
- Improving our integration with bioinformatics pipelining languages like Nextflow and Snakemake.
- Building our core API. This is currently written with Express/Node.js with a Postgres database.
- Building the UI for launching, monitoring, and sharing bioinformatics pipelines and data. This is currently written in React with Typescript.
- Improving our pipeline execution. This is mostly in AWS Batch.
- Improving our data handling. Most raw data is stored in S3, with metadata in a Postgres database.
We're a very small team, and we plan to stay small until we have strong product-market fit. We're funded by Y Combinator, have revenue from the FlowDeploy product, and can keep going for years without raising additional funding.
Interested? Apply through YC's Work at a Startup:
- Product Engineer: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flowdeploy/jobs/KrwNpl...
- Bioinformatics Engineer: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flowdeploy/jobs/I9F9sI...
You can reach me directly at "noah" at this domain.
While it's not an API, Anthropic's Agent SDK does require MCP to use custom tools.