Single-cell sequencing is making waves with many exciting developments over the last couple of years. Hardware is available from the companies like 10X Genomics, Fluidigm, Wafergen, BioRad (see GenomeWeb), RainDance (see GenomeWeb), Dolomite Bio. Chemistry for RNA and Genome sequencing such as SMART-Seq V4 and TruPrime, opens up all sorts […]
The latest round of fundraising by ONT brought in over $100 million, that makes a total of around $X million invested over the last X years. This round of funding was led by GT Healthcare, a Hong Kong based investment group. According to the Financial Times […]
Qiagen are now finally selling the GeneReader after a hiatus of several years. This was caused by issues getting a working instrument out of the original IBS technology, and also held, temporarily, up by recent Illumina litigation. GenomeWeb covered the relaunch back in November. Qiagens updated […]
Illumina stock dropped 25% after a hammering by the stock market with their recent announcements that Q3 revenues would be 3.4% lower than expected at just $607 million. This makes Illumina a much more attractive acquisition (although I doubt this summers rumours of a Thermo […]
This article was commissioned by Lexogen GmbH. My lab has been performing RNA-seq for many years, and is currently building new services around single-cell RNA-seq. Fluidigm’s C1, academic efforts such as Drop-seq and inDrop, and commercial platforms from 10X Genomics, Dolomite Bio, Wafergen, Illumina/BioRad, RainDance and others makes establishing […]
Multiplexing is the default option for most of the work being carried out in my lab, and it is one of the reasons Illumina has been so successful. Rather than the one-sample-per-lane we used to run when a GA1 generated only a few million reads […]
In yesterdays Fast Company piece Christina Farr (on Twitter) gives a very nice write up of Illumina’s history and where they are going with respect to bringing DNA sequencing into the clinic. I really liked the piece and wanted to share my thoughts after reading […]
The Genomics community is pushing ahead fast on single-cell analysis methods as these are revolutionising how we approach biological questions. Unfortunately my registration went in too late for the meeting running at the Sanger Institute this week (Follow #SCG16 on Twitter), but the Fluidigm pre-meeting was a […]
Anyone that’s been reading Core-Genomics will have seen my interest in the technology from 10X Genomics. I’ve been watching and waiting for publications to come out to get a better understanding of how people are using the technology and thought you might like my current […]
This post follows on from my previous one explaining the 10X Genomics single-cell mRNA-seq assay. This time round I’m really reviewing the method as described in a paper recently put up on the BioRxiv by 10X’s Deanna Church and David Jaffe: Direct determination of diploid genome […]
