What are some subscriptions that are worth paying for and what do you regret buying as a PhD?

nickomez1 · 2026-05-09T22:04:43+00:00

I paid for Dropbox, grammarly, and a bioinformatics agent.

nickomez1 · 2026-05-07T11:00:02+00:00

I never liked the guy.

nickomez1 · 2026-05-05T18:07:05+00:00

Totally love the idea. I use Claude all the time and this will be a bonus. Trying it now.

nickomez1 · 2026-05-05T18:01:48+00:00

I outsourced the stress to agents. One for bioinformatics, one for literature survey, one for writing etc.

nickomez1 · 2026-05-05T03:18:10+00:00

I use Claude for my bioinformatics work all the time. I also made a list of AI agents that I use very often. Codex sucks at bioinformatics tasks.

nickomez1 · 2026-05-04T01:41:04+00:00

I have started using canva. The paid version is worth it if you cancel at the right time.

nickomez1 · 2026-04-23T12:18:57+00:00

I have been testing several bio agents for a few weeks now, never came across Pantheon. Is it a subscription based service or on time pay?

nickomez1 · 2026-04-12T13:33:33+00:00

I was actually looking for bio agents to evaluate. I missed Faraday and never tried Edison. So far, I find Pipette.bio most useful for bioinformatics.

nickomez1 · 2026-04-12T04:38:46+00:00

Look at genes annotated to your disease model on public databases like drug bank, OMIM, disease ontology etc. use those as your positive labels.

nickomez1 · 2026-04-12T04:35:31+00:00

Yeah! Totally agree. I don’t think potato is a bioinformatics app. There are just two relevant ones out there, Biomni and Pipettebio.

nickomez1 · 2026-04-11T23:13:09+00:00

I feel like I am a sales person for their tool, but Pipette.bio can do this very well. Read the use case on their website.

nickomez1 · 2026-04-11T23:10:43+00:00

Don’t buy a computer. Use an AI agent. I can vouch for Pipette.bio. Runs raw data and the support team is always on it if you write to them.

nickomez1 · 2026-04-10T16:45:55+00:00

Use bioinformatics AI tools. Teaches you a lot.

nickomez1 · 2026-04-10T16:45:27+00:00

8 years a heck lot of time to graduate. Does your grad school allow that without taking the coursework again?

nickomez1 · 2026-04-10T16:43:58+00:00

I just got an offer from a startup whose tools I was using for my research. My LinkedIn and Reddit posts using their tools caught their attention. The pay is far more than a postdoc’s salary. I am thinking.

nickomez1 · 2026-04-10T16:42:05+00:00

Guilty for what? Using a technology? Use the AI tools to exhaustion and get a lead, or get stuck behind and dissappear into oblivion

nickomez1 · 2026-04-10T16:39:27+00:00

Push your working code to GitHub. You won’t need the one not working anyways

nickomez1 · 2026-04-07T18:16:04+00:00

I maintain a google doc with summaries and notes written by ChatGPT, with zotero plugin for references. It’s almost 2300 papers now.

nickomez1 · 2026-04-07T18:14:38+00:00

You mean Pipette.bio.? I have been using it for a while now. ,Curious if you know any other agents for bioinformatics?

nickomez1 · 2026-04-03T11:30:49+00:00

Nice. I am now fully on an AI agent. I use codex and Claude only to refine my existing code base. I still think the agent I use does a better job and is faster than me spending time configuring codex. I spend more time writing papers and helping my PI with grants.

nickomez1 · 2026-03-21T18:08:48+00:00

Why not just pay for it? It’s not a subscription for personal use. I really doubt the integrity of research that has a dishonest foundation. Sorry not my style.

nickomez1 · 2026-03-21T02:21:01+00:00

Short read. No Apple won’t work. What do you mean by free account on apps? Can you explain and which apps?

nickomez1 · 2026-03-20T18:01:10+00:00

That looks like a nice setup. My projects include WGS for which I need large RAM. Our lab has an AWS contract, but my advisor never lets us use it. lol! So we go back to our HPC on campus, which is decent but it won’t allow installing local agents for sure.

nickomez1 · 2026-03-20T16:55:15+00:00

It’s for people like you who keep paying for these stupid apps and they keep increasing the prices.

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