There was a real buzz in the community when Illumina resurrected the idea of using patterned flowcells for SBS sequencing (Keith Robison covered lots of genomics news back in January, including patterned flowcells ). One of the big problems with clustering is the need to […]
I’ve worked on model-organisms for a long time, originally in Plant research but nowadays I’m more likely to run genomic experiments for groups using Mouse models of cancer. It is impossible to do some experiments in Human patients for a variety of reasons, so we […]
I’m often asked which sample prep method a user should consider for their experiments. In my lab we use a lot of Illumina TruSeq kits; we’ve tried other methods, and do use Rubicon’s Thruplex, but Ilumina’s end-to-end support is useful in a medium sized […]
Illumina and Life Technologies are both launching targeted RNA-seq applications which are likely to become standard tools for many labs; if the price is right. The ability to target a portion of the genome has revolutionised next-generation sequencing experiments. The analysis of exomes has exploded, […]
Two weeks away from the lab, from papers, from email and from Core Genomics – I’ve just got back from Finland’s wilderness: wood-fired sauna, lakes to swim in, fish to catch and no-one for miles; and all with fantastic 4G connection! Holidays are great and […]
Illumina just bought Advanced Liquid Logic. Never heard of them until now, neither had I but I suspect we’ll see some pretty cool devices coming soon.On the ALL website they have the video below, I could not help but watch at 9sec and see PacMan […]
I have between 16 and 24 publications in various databases and keeping track of these can be more difficult than I think it should be. I’ve always used PubMed as my primary search tool and have a link to publications by James Hadfield on my […]
I was pointed to Ethan Ford’s blog by a colleague and thought I’d recommend you take a look. Ethan is a post-doc in Ryal Lister’s lab at The University of Western Australia. The post that got me interested was one about homemade AMPure […]
Dan Kobolt wrote a pair of articles about why he suggests you start blogging. In the first he talks about why you should, and perhaps why you would not, start blogging. I’d certainly encourage people to start, it’s fun, free and the feedback can be […]
We’ve waited since Christmas to find out more and on the NHS’ 65th birthday we finally get to hear more about how the NHS is going to roll out clinical sequencing for patients in England. In December last year Prime Minister David Cameron announced the […]
