We have just had an open day at our institute, we had Science Week here in the UK a month ago and I went to my son’s school to talk about why people have differently coloured eyes. I like communicating science to other people; at […]
Other than listing publications at the side of this blog, I would not normally cover in detail the work that my lab has contributed to or collaborated on. But there are two recent special cases, one just published (covered below) and another coming in five […]
My kit arrived, I spat and it is now being processed. It is a pretty neat package with easy to follow instructions. Inside the package was a box containing the kit, which is an Oragene product. Has anyone tested their RNA kits yet?Before sending it […]
Updated!I was presenting today at an EBI workshop and was followed by Matt Dyer, senior product manager bioinformatics at Ion Torrent. He gave a good introduction to the platform an recent development and then went onto a hands on demo of the Torrent suite of […]
A short while ago I posted about the recent exome sequencingcomparisons in Genome Research. In that post I did ask whether we really need to target the exome at all and if targeted amplicon sequencing might be a better fit for some projects. In the […]
Illumina’s stock has dropped dramatically in the last few months.I have watched Illumina over the last six or seven years and their price has seemed to follow a continual upward trajectory. With the exception of a couple of hiccups, one of which was caused by […]
I made a decision to try and build my kids a little dinghy so they could row about our local river and we might also spend a weekend on the Broads.Some of you will be thinking this guy runs a genomics lab and that the […]
There has been a lot in the news recently about Steve Jobs fight with Pancreatic cancer. The impact on Apple has been discussed at length (BBC apple coverage, Reuters, BBC, CNN, Apple, GenomeWeb), as has the possible impact on Steve Jobs himself. I guess this […]
I have recently been analysing some next-gen sequencing data for mutation detection. I realised pretty early on how long ago it was I had the opportunity to analyse some data of my own, as my day job is the generation of someone else’s. I have […]
Because they order 128 the day a new instrument is anounced and have deep pockets.I have been following developments at BGI over the past three or so years and was as stunned as anyone else at their announcment of a 128 HiSeq 2000 order in […]
