6 03, 2023

#AGBT’23: Illumina

By | March 6th, 2023|Categories: Conferences, Core facilities, Next-generation sequencing|Tags: , |0 Comments

Continuing with my summary of what happened at #AGBT23 here’s my round up of the big announcements from Illumina. Of course whilst much of the data presented at the meeting was generated on an Illumina sequencer there was a very significant amount of non-Illumina data […]

10 01, 2022

@SingularGenomic is coming to a core facility near you in 2022

By | January 10th, 2022|Categories: Core facilities, Next-generation sequencing|Tags: , , |6 Comments

The new G4 benchtop sequencer from Singular Genomics is here. Sept 17th 2021 saw the first picture of the G4 in the wild from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (see below). For anyone still recovering from a 2021 New Year’s hangover, the G4 is a […]

21 06, 2018

@Illumina #NovaSeq new mini flowcell

By | June 21st, 2018|Categories: Core facilities, Next-generation sequencing|2 Comments

Illumina released a new NovaSeq flowcell today: S Prime (SP). This allows users to run a very small number of samples and is much more akin to a HiSeq flowcell; one SP flowcells generates 1.6 billion reads or about 4-5 lanes of a HiSeq. It […]

16 01, 2018

Illumina index sequencing – where is my sample?

By | January 16th, 2018|Categories: Core facilities, Next-generation sequencing|2 Comments

Indexed sequencing is vital to the delivering cost-effective, and statistically robust, experiments. Nearly all non-WGS projects are indexed to some degree so understanding how the indexing works is useful; fortunately Illumina produced this handy guide for users: Indexed sequencing overview. After indexed sequencing our reads […]

24 04, 2017

Update on @illumina index-swapping: better barcode design

By | April 24th, 2017|Categories: "Experimental design controls etc", Core facilities, Methods and applications, Next-generation sequencing|Tags: , , |2 Comments

Last week I followed up on the index-swapping issue after Illumina released their white paper and also covered what Ethan Linck at The Molecular Ecologist had posted about the Sinha et al BioRxiv paper. In that post I said I’d write a follow-up post about index design over the weekend – here it is! […]

21 04, 2017

Update on @illumina index-swapping

By | April 21st, 2017|Categories: "Experimental design controls etc", Core facilities, Design, Methods and applications, Next-generation sequencing|1 Comment

Illumina released a white paper this week describing their efforts to understand the index-swapping issues with the ExAmp chemistry. This story has been covered many times and got lots of Tweets in the days since the BioRxiv paper from Stanford was uploaded. Megan Molteni at Wired wrote a lengthy […]

28 03, 2017

What does RNA-Seq mean to you

By | March 28th, 2017|Categories: Core facilities, Methods and applications, Next-generation sequencing|1 Comment

This post is a follow on from my ABRF2017 presentation this morning. Slides are available on SlideShare. RNA-Seq is the most widely published NGS method, but what do researchers mean by the term “RNA-Seq”? Virtually none of them mean sequencing of RNA. Most are talking […]

17 03, 2017

MinION or GridION for your core lab

By | March 17th, 2017|Categories: Core facilities, Nanopore sequencing|2 Comments

Clive Brown presented a webinar on Tuesday with multiple updates on Oxford Nanopore technology, Keith Robison covered them all over at OmicsOmics, but I’ll just be focussing on the launch of GridION X5. If you want to know more about GridION, PromethION, Throughput, 1D^2 Chemistry, Basecalling, the FPGA Basecalling Accelerator, and a […]

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