13 02, 2014

AGBT Wednesday 12th: No blogging allowed!

By | February 13th, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|2 Comments

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 […]

12 02, 2014

Floridian roadkill on the way to AGBT

By | February 12th, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

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. […]

9 02, 2014

Wet-lab, dry-lab or moist-lab

By | February 9th, 2014|Categories: Core facilities|0 Comments

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 […]

31 01, 2014

A new tool for NGS run QC

By | January 31st, 2014|Categories: Next-generation sequencing|2 Comments

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 […]

24 01, 2014

Who won the Core Genomics Christmas Competition?

By | January 24th, 2014|Categories: Other stuff|0 Comments

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 […]

20 01, 2014

HiSeq NextSeq 500

By | January 20th, 2014|Categories: Next-generation sequencing|1 Comment

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 […]

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