Erik Nilsson is primarily composed of water. Right now, he is at approximately 37 °C. He curates a multi-trillion copy collection of the human genome, almost every one of which he personally assembled. His sense of humor runs to the dry and wicked. His wheels are true and his chain is well lubricated.

Erik Nilsson is president of Insilicos, a biotech company developing proteomics biomarkers for disease diagnosis and research. Basically, we look for signals in things like blood that tell the difference between health and disease. We build models using the signals that can be used to predict disease or understand the mechanisms of disease.