lung.fish is a consortium of academic research laboratories and public health organizations whose mission is to advance environmental monitoring as a means of detecting, forecasting, and containing pathogen outbreaks.
Our Vision
Environmental Monitoring
We believe environmental monitoring combined with sequencing has potential to be the next big idea in public health. We sequence genetic material from sources as diverse as air, wastewater, groundwater, and seawater to identify and forecast pathogen outbreaks.
Open Data
We believe science progresses fastest in the open. Our projects comply with rigorous standards for data availability, including submission to public repositories like the Sequence Read Archive.
Scientific Reproducibility
Without reproducability, science can never progress. In line with our commitment to data availability, we go to great lengths to make our analyses reproducible and transparent. We believe code will be read many more times that it will be written, which is no less true for research software.
Open Source
All our projects are open source with a permissive license, making it more likely that our data and methods will be re-used by future scientists. Open source also gives us tools for managing contributions from across our team and from collaborators.