Andrew Adey’s group at the Department of Molecular & Medical Genetics in Oregon Health & Science University published SCI-seq in Nature Methods earlier this week (it has been on the BioRxiv since July). SCI-Seq is a method for single-cell copy number analysis that is likely […]
Single-cell sequencing is making waves with many exciting developments over the last couple of years. Hardware is available from the companies like 10X Genomics, Fluidigm, Wafergen, BioRad (see GenomeWeb), RainDance (see GenomeWeb), Dolomite Bio. Chemistry for RNA and Genome sequencing such as SMART-Seq V4 and TruPrime, opens up all sorts […]
This article was commissioned by Lexogen GmbH. My lab has been performing RNA-seq for many years, and is currently building new services around single-cell RNA-seq. Fluidigm’s C1, academic efforts such as Drop-seq and inDrop, and commercial platforms from 10X Genomics, Dolomite Bio, Wafergen, Illumina/BioRad, RainDance and others makes establishing […]
The Genomics community is pushing ahead fast on single-cell analysis methods as these are revolutionising how we approach biological questions. Unfortunately my registration went in too late for the meeting running at the Sanger Institute this week (Follow #SCG16 on Twitter), but the Fluidigm pre-meeting was a […]
10X Genomics have been very successful in developing their gel-bead droplet technology for phased genome sequencing and more recently, single-cell 3’mRNA-seq. I’ve posted about their technology before (at AGBT2016, and March and November 2015) and based most of what I’ve written on discussion with 10X […]
Fluidgm hosted a webinar this afternoon to describe the performance of the redesigned IFCs for medium-sized cells (10-17um), they’ve also released a whitepaper on their website describing their work. The redesigned medium-cell 96 IFCs have a >4-fold reduction in doublet rate at around 7%.This is […]
The landscape for gene expression analysis (and many other analyses) is moving away from measurements made in bulk tissues to single-cell methods. Bulk measurements are an average of the cells in the sample and so cannot truly reveal the subtleties of the biology in the […]
Stacey GabrielStacey is the Director of the Genomics Platform at the Broad Institute. Gave us a brief look back to 2006: 117 instruments (GA’s) producing 600,000 bases per day and 1 genome, versus 30 machines producing 12,000,000,000,000 bases per day and 32693 genomes!But one size […]
10X Genomics were one of the stars of the show at AGBT15, this year they’re bowling attendees over with new developments. They’ve obviously had an awfully busy year. They announced lots at JP Morgan (GenomeWeb, Core-Genomics). I got a sneak peak (as did Keith at […]
