I’ve been doing some work looking at CRUKs cancer incidence statistics and this is what sparked the idea for this post. There are just under 350,000 new cancer cases in the UK each year. Although ctDNA can be found in many/most tumour contexts (Bettegowda et […]

I updated my Google Scholar account today and saw that a paper I was a co-author on has had over 1000 citations: The genomic and transcriptomic architecture of 2,000 breast tumours reveals novel subgroups! This now puts it up near the top of Natures paper […]

This is not wholly a direct request for feedback on the Core Genomics blog! Dr. Paige Jarreau from LSU is surveying science blog readers about their social media habits and perceptions of the science blogs they read. Her project is funded partly through Experiment: the […]

Finally. Today Illumina announced that X Ten users can perform whole-genome sequencing of non-human species. Does this mean exomes and RNA-seq are on their way to X Ten? Or that an X One is going to be announced at JP Morgan? I might just hold […]

Would you stay at the home of another academic you had some loose connection with? Could the Airbnb model be successfully applied to help find accommodation for scientists travelling to meetings, visiting another lab, or even for longer sabbatical stays? I’m not sure but Pub-Bed […]

PacBio announced a baby RSII yesterday, which should be in the shops just in time for Christmas! The Sequel System (sounds like SequalPrep from Thermo for PCR cleanup) sounds like a big advance on the enormous RSII. Most aspects of the sequencing work flow are […]

My lab is looking to put an additional HiSeq 2500 v4 in place, Illumina do not have any (refurbs) to sell in the US or Europe so I thought I’d post here to see if any Core Genomics readers have an instrument they are looking […]

I built several TwitterBots last year to scrape papers on PubMed (thanks again to Casey), these have turned out to be really useful in alerting me to new work but last night I got a very interesting Tweet from @MattiasAine…I decided to take a look […]

Rubicon Genomics have a webinar on Creating Cell-free DNA Libraries with ThruPLEX Plasma-seq that was broadcast on September 17th 2015. The new PlasmaSeq kit has a very simple, 3-step, 15 minutes hands on time, single-tube workflow.Dr. Kamran Shazand, Rubicon Genomics’ Director of Applications presented an […]

I’m incredibly lucky because I don’t usually need to write grants. My lab is core funded by CRUK to provide genomics services to the CRUK- Cambridge Institute. However I do like to keep an eye out for opportunities to bring funding in for specific projects.Our […]