Thursday, February 11, 2016 17:08:Beth Shapiro: Beth Shapiro (@bonesandbugs) talked about “the rise and fall of passenger pigeons”, which went extinct in 1914, prior to this rapid decline there were lots of them, described as “an infite number of them” in 1534, but “massive flocks” were […]
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 21:00: you can follow my official blog coverage on the AGBT blog and see posts from the rest of the AGBT team.Sean EddySean Eddy kicks off the first plenary session “Genomics I†(chaired by Mike Zody from NYGC) his talk title […]
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 11:26 Welcome to AGBT 2016 (or #AGBT16 if you are on Twitter) in sunny Orlando. We’re not going to be able to walk to the beach and take a dip in the Gulf this year, but I’m certainly hoping the Marriott […]
Quite a lot actually…In a New Statesman article, sponsored by Merck, George Freeman (my local MP) was asked for his thoughts on future of Personalised Medicine by Merck’s Head of Public Affairs, Larushka Mellor.George described himself as one of the “early evangelists for the new […]
I recently presented at the Festival of Genomics on a proof-of-concept experiment we ran in my lab to generate single-cell copy number profiles. The experimental work was done in 2014 and we’re now looking to port the method over to Fluidigm’s C1 chips, possibly using […]
The HiSeq 4000 was Illumina’s way of making the patterned flowcell technology available to non X Ten customers, and opening up patterned flowcells to applications other than Human genomes. The list of supported library preps is still relatively small: TruSeq Nano, TruSeq PCR Free, Nextera […]
Illumina are offering the chance to win a Mini in a competition to drive interest in their MiniSeq, the competition grand prize winner gets a MiniSeq and an Illumina-branded Mini Cooper (probably pumpkin, possibly black-and-white).The competition is a grant program; to enter tell Illumina in […]
President Obama’s “moon shot” to get a cure for cancer has received a lot of coverage, both positive and negative. GenomeWeb pulled together some of this in a Scan article earlier this week: “Is a Cure Even Possible?”. This reported on coverage from The New […]
Scientists from David Zhang’s group in the NABlab at Rice University, Texas, and nanoString technologies had their work featured on the front cover of Decembers Nature Methods: Continuously tunable nucleic acid hybridization probes. The paper describes their work with X-probes and/or ToeHold probes to tune […]
Fluidigm President and CEO Gajus Worthington sent a message to C1 users today that reported problems with their C1 IFCs, particularly those for medium-size cells (10–17µm), The issue is an unacceptably high level of doublets i.e. two-cells in a capture site rather than one. The […]
