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 […]
This year I will be running a half-marathon and aiming to raise £2000 for Cancer Research UK. This is enough to sequence a Cancer genome which many of you will know is something we are doing in my lab. CRUK spent £332M in 2011 on […]
The recent announcements from Life Tech and Illumina, and the expected announcements from the competing technologies are giving us a hint of what it will be like to live in the $1000 genome world. From a genomics perspective the reduction in sequencing costs is very […]
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to everyone that read my blog this year. I only started in May and have had some great feedback. I’d seriously encourage others to start blogging too. It’s great fun and the discipline of trying to write something […]
It’s that time of year when kids come home from school and start complaining of “the itchesâ€; the nits are back.I don’t know about the rest of the world but here in the UK we used to have “nit nurses†who would go from school […]
