Illumina launched NeoPrep at AGBT and Keith Robison at OmicsOmics wrote a detailed summary of what Illumina say the NeoPrep is capable of (he compared this movie of the electro-wetting technology to video games of his, and my, youth), I thought I’d write down my […]
Nature Methods recently carried a News & Views article from Nick Loman and Mick Watson: “Successful test launch for nanopore sequencingâ€, in which they discuss the early reports of MinION usage; including a paper in the same issue of Nature Methods (Jain et al). They […]
Looks like I missed out on a bargain, the BGI has sold all their HiSeq 2500 instruments on eBay, but the auction ended yesterday.PS: Is the 454 on eBay for £7000 an April fool?
I’ve written before about how much I liked Nature Methods “Points of View†by Bang Wong and I created a public Mendeley group so you could access the papers. I’d also said that having the articles collected together as a hard-copy version would be great.Now […]
A great poster at AGBT was presented by Boreal Genomics and available on the Nanopore wiki for MAPpers. In A nanopore liquid biopsy Patrick Davies describes their combination of the Boreal On-Target with ONT MinION sequencing to detect mutant allele fractions in ctDNA of sub […]
I’ve currently got three positions open in my lab and thought I’d use this blog as another way to get the message out to prospective candidates. Two people recently moved onto new jobs; one in Inivata (the first spin-out from CRUK-CI) and one at AbCam, […]
I caught up with a new company on the target capture scene, Directed Genomics, at AGBT. Their approach is based on a simple idea: if you want to sequence exomes, why not capture only exons? Most exome-seq methods (Illumina, Agilent, Nimblegen) use oligo-baits to pull-down […]
In my last post I wrote about a computational screen of TCGA data and its use in repurposing approved drugs and/or finding new drug candidates for cancer patients. The work demonstrated the possibilities for finding novel treatments, but I also pointed to a cautionary Vemurafenib […]
A fantastic paper just out in Cancer Cell: In Silico Prescription of Anticancer Drugs to Cohorts of 28 Tumor Types Reveals Targeting Opportunities from Nuria Lopez-Bigas’s BioMedical Genomics lab in Barcelona.They have developed an in silico prescription strategy by identifying the driver events in TCGA […]
Another fun year at AGBT in sunny Marco Island. There has been some good blog coverage this year, but not from me; I’ve been Tweeting instead @CIgenomics on #AGBT15, see what happened on Twitter.The UCSC Twitter trackBlog coverage: GenomeWeb were there for those who could […]
