“We live in an interesting age” or so the quote goes. It is very interesting that BGI are going to start selling sequencing technology. The coverage of Jun Wang’s (BGI CEO) JP Morgan presentation by GenomeWeb lays out what they plan to do to start […]
I was as surprised as everyone else with the most recent announcements by Illumina (JP Morgan post), especially their rapidity given that V4 chemistry is just 6months old; and I quickly sketched out my initial thoughts at the beginning of the week. There’s been lots […]
For those that are interested you can listen to the presentation by Jay Flatley at JP Morgan. And if you can’t be bothered, then here are my notes (be warned they may contain inaccuracies):The last 12 months: 2014 was massive for Illumina – X Ten […]
Illumina continue to push hard on making DNA sequencing cheaper and easier to access for everyone. The announcements at last night’s JP Morgan included a smaller X Ten, HiSeq 3000/4000 and NextSeq 550. I’m not going into much detail about the instruments, you can get […]
There is a whole big noisy discussion going on around the regulation of NGS tests, which has been covered in some detail by GenomeWeb and other bloggers. My lab does not develop tests, but I have a real interest in seeing how NGS is being […]
Shortly after writing my post on Authorship and acknowledgement of core facility work I was pointed to the GATC Top publications of 2014. Here GATC list the papers where their sequencing (and other) services have been used and acknowledged.Congratulations GATC: four Nature and one Cancer […]
Have a great Christmas break…hope to see you in 2015. James.
Two major problems are encountered by researchers wanting to analyse circulating tumour DNA; contamination by gDNA from white blood cells; and the relatively low amount of circulating DNA. Because of this the protocols used for blood collection and circulating DNA extraction are critical. This post […]
I’ve been lucky enough to work in an Institute that views its core facilities as a cornerstone of the scientific output, and we get acknowledged for most of the work we do. Other core facilities are not so lucky; and even here sometimes people simply […]
Fred Sanger – Double Nobel Laureate: A Biography.Author: George G. Brownlee.Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2014) ISBN: 9781107083349Fred Sanger’s biography has been written by his one-time PhD student, and long time collaborator, George Brownlee. Fred (I’ll refer to him by his first name as I think […]
