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 […]
I’ve worked on model-organisms for a long time, originally in Plant research but nowadays I’m more likely to run genomic experiments for groups using Mouse models of cancer. It is impossible to do some experiments in Human patients for a variety of reasons, so we […]
Illumina just bought Advanced Liquid Logic. Never heard of them until now, neither had I but I suspect we’ll see some pretty cool devices coming soon.On the ALL website they have the video below, I could not help but watch at 9sec and see PacMan […]
I have between 16 and 24 publications in various databases and keeping track of these can be more difficult than I think it should be. I’ve always used PubMed as my primary search tool and have a link to publications by James Hadfield on my […]
Dan Kobolt wrote a pair of articles about why he suggests you start blogging. In the first he talks about why you should, and perhaps why you would not, start blogging. I’d certainly encourage people to start, it’s fun, free and the feedback can be […]
Someone recently asked me “How do SPRI beads work” and I realised I was not completely sure so I went to find out. My lab uses kits. Lots and lots of kits; kits for DNA extraction, kits for PCR, kits for NGS library prep […]
I just organised and hosted an NGS conference for 150 people in Cambridge which was well attended, had interesting talks and received positive feedback. It was a lot of work getting everything organised so I thought I’d put together my thoughts on the whole thing […]
Over the past two days I have hosted the 3rd CRI/Sanger NGS workshop at CRI. I hosted the first of these in 2009 and the demand for information about NGS technologies and applications appears to be greater today than it was back then. We had […]
I had a very interesting discussion over coffee yesterday at TRON, a new Translational Oncology institute in Mainz, Germany. TRON is specialising in cancer immunology and genomics, or Immunomics. One of the things they are aiming to do is develop personalised cancer vaccines by finding […]
I wrote this post after a recent experimental design discussion where we went round and round discussing RNA analysis.There are many different RNA molecules in a cell. When I was studying there were only three, mRNA, ribosomal RNA and tRNA. Simple! However over the last […]
