This years Illumina Scientific Summit was a great meeting, lots of great talks and great people to talk to at dinner and the bar. I already posted about a collaboration Geoff Smith presented and this post is some rough notes on the “Cancer Genomics” breakout […]
Geoff Smith from Illumina presented a great piece of work his group have been collaborating on with Jill Banfield’s research group at the University of California Berkely, Department of Earth and Planetary sciences. Geoff included a discussion on their use of Moleculo.They have been using […]
The use of NGS in forensics is likely to supplant current STR profiling. One issue that has been discussed is the need to robustly determine that the correct sample has been analysed and reported on. With NGS almost all sequencing today is being done in […]
We have been running Nextera in my lab for a while now and had some great success e.g. 600x C. elegans genomes. With the release of Illumina’s rapid exome kits Nextera is proving to be a versatile and useful addition to our lab tools. Unfortunately […]
Illumina’s just announced a partnership with major automation vendors so their s-bot looks like it has been killed as a project. We’ve got a Tecan Evo in our lab and would like to use it for library prep but a major headache has been the […]
I came across this blog recently and thought you’d like to read it too. Try this at home is a blog written by Mark Lorch, a chemistry lecturer at the University of Hull. He has some great stuff to try at home with the kids, […]
The New York Times recently published an article on Foundation Medicine and their approach to personalised cancer genomics (targeted sequencing of 236 cancer genes). The test costs $5800 and is covered by some insurers in the USA. And the reports from the test have caused […]
I have recently added several more blogs to the list on the side of this page, these are blogs I enjoy and I hope you find the posts on them as interesting as I do. Choosing to follow a blog always seems a bit of […]
The NGS community has been talking about the $1000 genome as a holy grail (expect it in the second half of 2014), but on the way to this the exome is looking like it will become a cornerstone of modern medical research mainly because of […]
1st RULE: Everyone votes at cake club. 2nd RULE: EVERYONE votes at cake club. 3rd RULE: If someone says “burnt” the cake is over. 4th RULE: Only one person can bake. 5th RULE: Only one cake at a time. 6th RULE: No shop bought, no […]
