A great poster at AGBT was presented by Boreal Genomics and available on the Nanopore wiki for MAPpers. In A nanopore liquid biopsy Patrick Davies describes their combination of the Boreal On-Target with ONT MinION sequencing to detect mutant allele fractions in ctDNA of sub […]
I’ve currently got three positions open in my lab and thought I’d use this blog as another way to get the message out to prospective candidates. Two people recently moved onto new jobs; one in Inivata (the first spin-out from CRUK-CI) and one at AbCam, […]
I caught up with a new company on the target capture scene, Directed Genomics, at AGBT. Their approach is based on a simple idea: if you want to sequence exomes, why not capture only exons? Most exome-seq methods (Illumina, Agilent, Nimblegen) use oligo-baits to pull-down […]
In my last post I wrote about a computational screen of TCGA data and its use in repurposing approved drugs and/or finding new drug candidates for cancer patients. The work demonstrated the possibilities for finding novel treatments, but I also pointed to a cautionary Vemurafenib […]
A fantastic paper just out in Cancer Cell: In Silico Prescription of Anticancer Drugs to Cohorts of 28 Tumor Types Reveals Targeting Opportunities from Nuria Lopez-Bigas’s BioMedical Genomics lab in Barcelona.They have developed an in silico prescription strategy by identifying the driver events in TCGA […]
At AGBT 2015 the big splash was clearly 10X Genomics and their new technology the GemCode “toaster”; presumably so called because of its diminutive size, and not because your microtitre plate is launched out the top nice and warm! The system is available to order […]
Another fun year at AGBT in sunny Marco Island. There has been some good blog coverage this year, but not from me; I’ve been Tweeting instead @CIgenomics on #AGBT15, see what happened on Twitter.The UCSC Twitter trackBlog coverage: GenomeWeb were there for those who could […]
The meeting kicks off today with Illumina’s user meeting and I’m going to give “Tweeting the meeting” a go this year. Keep an eye on @CIgenomics and #AGBT15James.
We’ll soon be back in sunny Florida (current forecast is low to mid 20’s) for another cram packed Advances in Genome & Biotechnology meeting. Of course the focus is still on sequencing, but with instruments like to CyTof coming along and huge improvements in total […]
A recent BioTechniues practical guide: Libraryconstruction for next-generation sequencing: Overviews and challenges, written by Steven Head et al from the The ScrippsResearch Institute NGS and Microarray Core Facility; might be just the thing to hand out to your NGS newbies as it covers pretty much […]
