I’ve just had my five year anniversary of starting the Core Genomics blog! Those five years have whizzed by and NGS technologies have surpassed almost anything I dreamed would have been possible when I started using them in 2007. My blog has also grown beyond […]
A new genome amplification technology from Expedeon/Sygnis: TruePrime looks like it might work great for single-cell and low-input anlyses – particularly copy number. TruePrimer is a primer-free multiple displacement amplification technology. It uses the well established phi29 DNA polymerase and a new TthPrimPol primase, which […]
I just completed a grant application and one of the steps required me to list my recent papers in a specific format. This was an electronic submission and I’m sure it could be made much simpler, possibly by working off the DOI or PubMed ID? […]
A recent paper from Mike Quail’s group at the Sanger Institute compares 9 different library prep kits for WGS. In Quantitation of next generation sequencing library preparation protocol efficiencies using droplet digital PCR assays – a systematic comparison of DNA library preparation kits for Illumina […]
Oxford Nanopore should have kits for direct RNA sequencing available later this year, and have several examples of how these might be used on their website. The method presented at London Calling (see OmicsOmics coverage), is primarily for mRNA, but it likely to be adapted for other […]
Brexit sucks…probably. The issue is we don’t really know what the vote really means, or even if we’ll actually leave the European Union in the next couple of years at all. However one thing cannot be ignored and that is the two-fingered salute to our […]
I’ve just readvertised for someone to my lab as the new Genomics Core Deputy Manager. We’re expanding the Genomics core and building single-cell genomics capabilities (we currently have both 10X Genomics and Fluidigm C1). I’m looking for a senior scientist who can help lead the […]
Everyone loves bead cleanups, and it appears that almost everyone (85%) who read my recent post about SPRI alternatives loves Agencourt AMPureXP. I’d asked readers to take a survey asking if they used AMPure XP, a commercial alternative, or a home-brew version – the results […]
Copy-number analysis is a useful tool for many researchers and we use it a lot for analysis of tumour samples. In the past this was done using SNP arrays e.g. Affymetrix SNP6.0 in METABRIC, but today we’re generally using low-coverage whole genome sequencing and tools […]
I don’t usually read Proteomics papers but have been thinking about how we might combine single cell genome and transcriptome sequencing – with Fluidigm’s Helios (CyToF) and have been trying to get more acquainted with Proteomics methods. In doing so I found this excellent paper: […]
