Journal Safari: Malva, An Index Is a Subscription
Sep 16, 2026
Journal Safari #5. Malva makes 74 million single cells searchable by raw sequence, answering 24-mer queries in milliseconds, and it found oral bacteria outside a tumour section that a reference-based pipeline discards by construction. The engineering is excellent. What decides whether it still exists in 2036 isn't in the paper, and three of its four referees spent ten months saying so.