Social networking and commenting or reviewing on websites are part of the run-of-the-mill for most of today’s web users. Who would book a hotel without checking TripAdvisor for instance? Even finding a plumber is made easier with sites like Mybuilder!There are many other “social-networking” sites […]
There is an ongoing debate about consumer genetics. Companies such as 23andMe can provide what appear to be rich datasets on the surface but comparisons of results between companies can lead to different conclusions, the raw data can also differ although where the same arrays […]
At the 2012 Illumina European scientific summit just outside Barcelona in June Sean Humphray presented work on HiSeq 2500 sequencing of clinical genomes. The results were pretty stunning with very nice data, generated and analysed in under a week, it really looked like we were […]
Update: the cufflinks referred to on GenomeWeb have now sold and made £60 for charity. If you would like me to put another pair on eBay leave a comment below and I’ll add a link. I posted last year a picture of some Ion Torrent […]
Today the Primer Minister of the UK, David Cameron, visited the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute and my lab!L-R: Fatimah, Hannah, Claire, Sarah, James Brenton, David Cameron (holding a MiSeq flowcell) and me!We had only a little warning he was coming and had to […]
A recent Lancet paper (Whole-genome sequencing for analysis of an outbreak of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcusaureus: a descriptive study) describes work in the Rosie’s special care bay unit at Addenbrookes hospital in Cambridge (just across the road from where I work).The group studied a putative outbreak of […]
I am often asked for a good NGS reference, or references that explain the technology used in next generation sequencing experiments. I have gathered together a list of my favourites over the past few years and thought readers of this blog might like to see […]
Prof Steve Jackson presented a great seminar today at CRI on his labs work on DNA damage repair. One of the numbers that jumped out at me was 1,000,000, that is 1M DNA damage events per cell per day.Just think, even with all that going […]
Many many years ago I started up an Affymetrix microarray core lab. One of the early presentations on the 10k genotyping arrays was an epiphany for me. It was clear from the data that copy number would be easily discernible from the technology. I also […]
Tycho Brae was recently exhumed for the second time. The astronomer died suddenly in 1601 and analysis of hair from a 1901 exhumation suggested he may have been poisoned. The recent exhumation by the University of Southern Denmark disproved this theory, however what exactly did […]
