A great new resource was recently brought to my attention on Twitter and there is a paper describing it on the BioRxiv: DNAmod: the DNA modification database. Nearly all of the modified nucleotide sequencing we hear and read about is modifications to Cytosine mostly methyl cytosine […]
Today I have been working for Cancer Research UK for ten years! September 1st 2006 seems like such a short time ago but a huge amount has changed in that time in the world of Genomics. NGS has changed the way we do biology, and […]
The amount of power used in a genome analysis is not something I’d ever thought of until I heard about Optalysys, a company developing optical computing that has the potential to be 90% more energy-efficient and 20X faster than than standard (electronic) compute infrastructure. Read on if you are […]
It is almost time for the kick off at Genome Science, probably the best organised academic conference in the UK. It runs from August 30th to September 1st next week and sadly I can’t be there (just returned from holidays and too much going on). You can hear from […]
I’ve just had my five year anniversary of starting the Core Genomics blog! Those five years have whizzed by and NGS technologies have surpassed almost anything I dreamed would have been possible when I started using them in 2007. My blog has also grown beyond […]
I just completed a grant application and one of the steps required me to list my recent papers in a specific format. This was an electronic submission and I’m sure it could be made much simpler, possibly by working off the DOI or PubMed ID? […]
Brexit sucks…probably. The issue is we don’t really know what the vote really means, or even if we’ll actually leave the European Union in the next couple of years at all. However one thing cannot be ignored and that is the two-fingered salute to our […]
I’ve just readvertised for someone to my lab as the new Genomics Core Deputy Manager. We’re expanding the Genomics core and building single-cell genomics capabilities (we currently have both 10X Genomics and Fluidigm C1). I’m looking for a senior scientist who can help lead the […]
I don’t usually read Proteomics papers but have been thinking about how we might combine single cell genome and transcriptome sequencing – with Fluidigm’s Helios (CyToF) and have been trying to get more acquainted with Proteomics methods. In doing so I found this excellent paper: […]
Congratulations to Tatiana Borodina who has won the Core Genomics Christmas competition and a free MiSeq run courtesy of Illumina. Special mentions to runners up Tim Forshew (Cambridge Institute) and Charles Warden (City of Hope) who were very close to Tatiana. And also to Thomas […]
