A wonderful story appeared on BBC news website today about the company Planet Labs who are using a similar idea Illumina implemented in designing NextSeq – borrow from consumer electronics to advance science. Rather than building sequencers Planet Labs have built and launched a flock […]
I’ve just returned from Illumina’s 2014 scientific summit in Prague which was a great meeting with loads of interesting speakers, great food (check out this restaurant if you’re ever in Prague) and lots of opportunity for engagement with other users as well as Illumina executives. […]
DMSO is used in many protocols as a ‘universal solvent’, it’s great for solublising small molecules and you’ve almost certainly used DMSO when freezing cells or in PCR. Unfortunately it’s relative ubiquity of use in research labs means it’s negative impacts on some compounds can […]
The Circos plot is one of my favourite visualisations of genomic data, it’s easy to be blown away by the images our microscopy core produce and genomic data is usually quite a let down by comparison. But the Circos plot is not the first visualisation […]
Wow there is a lot of choice when it comes to buying something as simple as an NGS library prep kit. With Illumain in mind (as always) I found at least 17 providers. includding: Affymetrix, Agilent, Beckman, Bioo, Enzymatics, Epigentek, Illumina, Kapa, Lucigen, Mclab, Milipore, NEB, […]
It’s holiday season every season with pretty much every academic pursuit. We’re very lucky being ale to escape to some wonderful places to discuss the work we do and face-to-face really is the best way. Sometimes choosing which conference to go to can be a […]
Cancer Research UK science has been turned into a game for your mobile: Genes in Space. The aim is to collect space rocks; to do this you need to map a route through the densest regions in space then fly though and catch as many […]
Illumina are probably going to announce their latest sequencer today and Core Genomics was heard about it before anyone else…MiSeq X. Similar in name to the HiSeq X Ten the MiSeq X borrows many of the improvements seen in it’s big brother including new optics, […]
Stats: not everyone’s favourite subject but something we can’t avoid so understanding the basics is a very good idea. We’re lucky in my Institute having biostatistical support in our Bioinformatics core facility and try to have a statistician with us every time we design a […]
The BBC ran an article a few weeks ago on the possibility of performance enhancing genetics: think Team BMC Genomics! The piece has an interview with Dr Philippe Moullier from INSERM in Nantes, he was part of a group that published a paper describing “Neo-organ” […]
