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 […]
A recent advertising flyer from Life Tech seems to borrow from the GoogleMap of next-gen sequencers by suggesting to their community to “get on the map”. The backdrop to the ad is a map of the world with highlighted areas where the reader might assume […]
A box plot conveys a lot of information and can be a very powerful tool. Excel does not generate these as part of its basic funtctions and I have never found time to learn how to do this in R orGather your data togather in […]
Thanks very much to the people that sent me some more chips for an improved set of cuff links. I was not sure whether you required anonymity or not so erred on the side of caution!It would take quite a nerd to spot the difference […]
I have been collecting genomics technologies for a while to create a little display of old and current consumables. As part of this collecting I had more Ion chips than I needed and decided to try and get creative.The result is (I think) quite a […]
I always struggle when it comes to writing in someones leaving card. I’d like to be witty and at the same time show the person that I remembered them and enjoyed working with them. However most of the time something short gets quickly scribbled. We […]
GlaxoSmithKline have won the contract to help perform drug testing at next summers 2012 Olympic games with King’s College London’s Drug Control Centre. There is a report on the BBC news from the 10th of October which is still being repeated. It is, quite frankly, […]
23andMe just launched their new programme to perform exome sequencing for individuals. The Exome80 “Personal exome sequencing” will cost just $999! This will now put pressure on some of those who have had their genomes scanned on arrays to pay up for the exome or […]
