15 02, 2014

The best talk at ABGT so far

By | February 15th, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|1 Comment

This years AGBT has again been a full program from dawn to dusk (or later). This year my favourite session has been Fridays Genomic Technologies Development session. It was the most technologically focused session with five great talks and one that I thought was outstanding.Patrick […]

13 02, 2014

AGBT Wednesday 12th: No blogging allowed!

By | February 13th, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|2 Comments

There were three great talks in the opening session of AGBT yesterday but before we kicked off Eric Green reminded everyone in the audience about the “opt-in” policy on blogging and tweeting (and any other kind of media). If someone opts out then we can’t […]

12 02, 2014

Floridian roadkill on the way to AGBT

By | February 12th, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

I had a long and tiring trip to Miami yesterday with two hours of immigration and security. I wok up at 4am thanks to jet-lag and decided to drive over to AGBT at Marco Island via I41 through the everglades and Big Cyprus national park. […]

7 12, 2013

“A bridge too far” for consumer genomics?

By | December 7th, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|1 Comment

It’s amazing what is being done with DNA sequencing. Cancer genetics and personalised medicine make headlines, consumer genomics has been in the news and Genomics England are going to sequence 100,000 NHS patients. But all that glitters is not gold! I’m not sure everyone will […]

5 12, 2013

23andMe vs Lisa Casey

By | December 5th, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|2 Comments

Updated after reading Dale Yazuki’s blog pointing to this post by Lukas Hartmann, which I’ve sumarised next to Shaheen Pasha’s below.Poor old 23andMe; first the FDA and now Lisa Casey, can they survive? And what would their failure mean for personal genomics?courtesy of Genome.GovOn November […]

30 11, 2013

How much does NGS cost: a logical puzzle

By | November 30th, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|8 Comments

At our recent institute symposium I added an additional graphic to try and get people thinking about how much their sequencing costs.Can you work it out: Below are six pairs of circles representing genome, methylome, RNA-seq (GX), ChIP-seq, Exomes and amplicons, size is proportional to […]

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