Foundation Medicine published a wonderful paper in Nature Biotechnology last month. Development and validation of a clinical cancer genomic profiling test based on massively parallel DNA sequencing describes their approach to personalised cancer genomics.Foundation Medicines “Foundation 1” test allows NGS analysis of 287 genes from […]
Fred Sanger died today aged 95. A sad day for science but one where we can remember the phenomenal impact his work has had on us all. Of course being a genomics lab makes his work all the more important, but almost everything done in […]
Don’t we all get tired of being in the lab and wish we could work from home sometimes? Office workers do it fine and now they have a robot to help them keep in touch with colleagues in the office.I’m not exactly sure how we […]
ENCODE was a mammoth endeavor, and one that is helping to better shape our understanding of biology, but the project required a large multi-national collaboration to generate the 1000’s of ChIP-seq and RNA-seq libraries. Last week Duncan Odom’s research group at the Cambridge Institute published an […]
If you are using Illumina’s BaseSpace then you probably run into some of the same frustrations as myself and other users, however Illumina do provide a feedback mechanism and a forum to suggest ideas for development. Finding this can be a bit difficult so in […]
When the Prime Minister announced £100M and the creation of Genome England we thought we had made the big time here in the UK. But compare that to the Broad’s latest gift of $100M and our national effort suddenly doesn’t look so big!The Broad was […]
PubMed commons is hoping to create somewhere for researchers to “share their opinions about scientific publications”, it is going to be for “open and constructive criticism and discussion of scientific issues” and will “depend on the scientific quality of the interchange”. Your comments are made […]
–>George Church started something great back in 2005, now Stephan Beck at the UCL Cancer Centre has kicked off the UK’s own Personal Genome Project. The idea has always been a simple one, get data from willing participants, make genome sequencing free and make the […]
A few years ago one of our junior group leaders made an interesting appointment; he recruited a bioinformatician into a research assistant role. Every lab has someone, or several people, who keep the lab running. They are the people making sure cells get cultured, supporting […]
Genomics England is steaming ahead to sequence 100,000 genomes from NHS patients. Today Genomics England and Illumina announced their intention to start the 1st 10,000 genomes as part of a seqeucning contract run by Illumina. Set up by the Department of Health and announced […]
