There were three great talks in the opening session of AGBT yesterday but before we kicked off Eric Green reminded everyone in the audience about the “opt-in” policy on blogging and tweeting (and any other kind of media). If someone opts out then we can’t […]
I had a long and tiring trip to Miami yesterday with two hours of immigration and security. I wok up at 4am thanks to jet-lag and decided to drive over to AGBT at Marco Island via I41 through the everglades and Big Cyprus national park. […]
AGBT is not all hard work; there’s blogs to be written, Tweets to tweet and drinks to be drunk. Coverage from Bloggers and Tweeters is usually pretty good and makes up a little for not actually getting there, I know as I missed last year […]
Wet-lab: your traditional research lab with lots going on at the bench (often collaborating with dry-labs).Dry-lab: A computational or mathematical lab focusing on analysis of other peoples data (sometimes collaborating with dry-labs).Moist-lab: the new style of lab with both wet- and dry-staff, working together with […]
Illumina now have a sequencer for almost every need: S, M, L & XL. There is a helpful table on their website that give instrument specs and an application-by-application estimate of sample numbers that can be sequenced in run:Interestingly gene panel’s don’t appear on HiSeq […]
Illumina surprised pretty much everyone with their latest SBS chemistry. I was at an Illumina meeting last week where it was discussed at some length, with many in the audience concerned about possible new error modes due to the drastic change compared to the four-colour […]
We just published a paper describing the tool we use in my lab as the primary QC for all lanes of sequencing, we’ve used this tool on about 5000-6000 samples over th past 3-4 years.Multi-genome alignment for quality control and contamination screening of next-generation sequencing […]
Congratulations to Tatiana Borodina who has won the Core Genomics Christmas competition and a free MiSeq run courtesy of Illumina. Special mentions to runners up Tim Forshew (Cambridge Institute) and Charles Warden (City of Hope) who were very close to Tatiana. And also to Thomas […]
Breaking news: AGBT Feb 14th: David Jaffe from the Broad Institute is presenting a talk titled: “Assembly of Bacterial Genomes Using Long Nanopore Readsâ€. My assumption is that this is ONT, it may not be but see you there anyway.Almost there. Registration to the MinION […]
Onto the next new instrument from Illumina, the NextSeq 500, I’ve given a brief overview but covered the new chemistry in an earlier post.Illumina helpfully provide the NextSeq 500 User guide on their website. There is a lot of interesting reading in it and I’ve […]
