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Manuel Corpas is the computational genomicist who named agentic genomics and builds the open infrastructure that makes AI-driven genome interpretation trustworthy.

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Manuel Corpas is a computational genomicist who named the paradigm of agentic genomics in Cell Genomics in 2026. He ran the first controlled test of where correctness must live inside an agentic pipeline, and built the open infrastructure it demands: ClawBio, ClawBench and GenomeQA. He has published 69 papers and works in English and Spanish.

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Manuel Corpas is a computational genomicist working on whether a genome interpretation can be trusted, and for whom it holds. In 2011 he sequenced his own family and published their genomes openly, and concluded that interpretation, not sequencing, was the bottleneck. He spent the following decade measuring who was missing from the reference data, in pharmacogenomics, polygenic risk scores and biobanks, and helped build some of the missing data through the Peruvian Genome Project.

When AI agents arrived in genomics he argued that automation industrialises that gap rather than closing it, and named the resulting paradigm agentic genomics in Cell Genomics in July 2026. He then ran the first large-scale controlled evaluation of where correctness must reside inside such a pipeline, and built the open trust layer it requires. He is Co-founder and Chief Scientist of GENEQ Global and Visiting Researcher at the University of Westminster.

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• Coined agentic genomics in Cell Genomics, published 21 July 2026. Corpas M, Guio H, Fatumo S. doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2026.101305. PMID 42480539.
• 69 publications, over 4,400 citations, h-index 24, i10-index 37.
• Published in Nature Genetics, Cell Genomics, Nature Communications, Nature Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine, PLOS Computational Biology and the Annual Review series.
• ClawBio, the open trust layer: 1,061 stars, 234 forks, 44 contributors.
• 1,380 people have taken part in the ClawBio community and hackathons across London, Berlin and Boston.
• Benchmark scale: eight frontier models, 110 clinical cases, 13,200 scored evaluations, 7,241 genomes.
• Founder of the ISCB Student Council and of BioJS. Part of the team behind DECIPHER.
• Convener of the Congreso de Genómica, the Spanish Congress on Genomic Medicine.
• Author of five books, in English and Spanish.
• Works and lectures in English and Spanish, across Europe and Latin America.

Current roles

Co-founder and Chief Scientist, GENEQ Global. Visiting Researcher, University of Westminster. Founder, Cambridge Precision Medicine. Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute.

Upcoming appearances

• World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, Glasgow, 1 October 2026. Plenary.
• MENA Microbiome Conference, Sidra Medicine, Doha, 17 October 2026.
• ESHG 2027, Rotterdam, 13 June 2027. Invited educational lecture in the session The Rise of Agentic AI.

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Topics I can speak to

• Agentic genomics: what happens when AI agents run genomic analyses, and what it takes to trust them
• Why retrieval-augmented AI can make clinical recommendations more dangerous, not less
• Genomic diversity and health equity, and why 86% European ancestry data is a safety problem
• Benchmarking and validation standards for AI in medicine
• Personal genomics and what it is like to publish your own family’s genomes

Links and verification

What is agentic genomics | Publications | Talks and events | Books | ORCID | Google Scholar | PubMed | Wikipedia | GitHub | YouTube | Podcast

Contact

For interviews, speaking invitations and press enquiries, reach me on LinkedIn.