21 07, 2016

Core Genomics is going cor-porate (sort of)

By | July 21st, 2016|Categories: Other stuff|3 Comments

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 […]

14 07, 2016

How much time is lost formatting references?

By | July 14th, 2016|Categories: Other stuff|0 Comments

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? […]

24 06, 2016

I don’t want to leave Europe

By | June 24th, 2016|Categories: Other stuff|0 Comments

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 […]

17 06, 2016

Come and work in my lab…

By | June 17th, 2016|Categories: Other stuff|0 Comments

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 […]

9 06, 2016

Proteomics is starting to rock too…

By | June 9th, 2016|Categories: Other stuff|0 Comments

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: […]

24 01, 2014

Who won the Core Genomics Christmas Competition?

By | January 24th, 2014|Categories: Other stuff|0 Comments

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 […]

23 07, 2013

Illumina’s next-gen automation solution

By | July 23rd, 2013|Categories: Other stuff|2 Comments

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 […]

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