Identifying the Skunk Genes in Cannabis with Manny Maminakis

Ben AmiraultCultivation, Podcast

Manny Maminakis is the inventor and CEO of Cannamatrix INC, a cannabis bioinfomratics platform. Prior to Cannamatrix, Manny spent 12 years in the cannabis industry as an award winning cannabis cultivator and edible chef. At CannMed 26, he presented a poster titled “Computational Identification of Volatile Sulfur Compound Synthase Homologs in Cannabis sativa Using Profile Hidden Markov Models” During our …

Building Trust into the Cannabis Industry

Ben AmiraultCryptocurrency, Uncategorized

Recent events surrounding a cannabis genomics company in Oregon have sparked outrage amongst the cannabis community. This particular organization offered sequencing services claiming it would serve as a mechanism for demonstrating prior art to combat future patents. Instead, those services were used to stock a breeding program that would directly compete with the very same cultivators who purchased their services. …