ChIP-seq can only really work if you have a good antibody for the protein of interest. Any non-specific binding is going to add noise to your data making motif finding, differential binding analysis difficult or even impossible. Back in 2008 Mathias Uhlén’s group at the […]
Sorry about the accidental posting…here’s the final version. Innes Barroso, Head of Human Genetics at Sanger Institute “Genomics and Metabolic Disease – what have we learned so far”Type 2 diabetes, many patients controlled by table some on insulin, it is a very complex disorder, both […]
Andrew Beggs is chairing the clinical genomics session – this is why I am here, cool stuff!Interesting that the Tolstoy quote from Pippa Thomson’s talk (see below) “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” came up, as it […]
Day 2 Single cell was popular, but were all crammed over in the Arts building somewhere close to Solihull. Nick forgot to organise a coach so we had to walk, I guess we’re building up an appetite for the street food tonight! Bill Hanage asked […]
I’m at the 6th UK Genome Science conference in beautiful and vibrant Birmingham. There is a good attendance and the place is full with a real buzz about new technologies (more about that in a sec), the work people are doing and the freebies on […]
Today Ion Torrent launched their newest sequencers the S5 ($65k or $150k with the S5 XL, which includes more compute). Ion Torrent was exciting technology when we first heard about it and I’m disappointed it never quite lived up to the promise, and that it […]
We do lots of DNA, RNA and NGS library normalisations mostly by hand after calculating dilutions in Excel. It works well but is cumbersome and prone to error. We’re fortunate to have an Agilent Bravo robot and are now automating more of this with excellent […]
The GEUVADIS Consortium published a study looking at reproducibility in RNA-seq in Nature Biotech in 2013 and I only just saw the paper. I thought that readers of this blog would be interested so take a look: Reproducibility of high-throughput mRNA and small RNA sequencing […]
Core Genomics is now on holiday for two weeks after finally graduating from my PhD yesterday, 20 years to the date I finished my BSc, better late than never! Back in mid-August folks.
NIPT for Down’s Syndrome and other chromosomal abnormalities is taking off. A colleague of mine recently had an Ariosa test, paid for privately, and reported real satisfaction with the process. Lin Chitty at UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital recently reported […]
