A few weeks ago I wrote about an idea I had been thinking about for a while for using SNPs as additional content in capture or amplicon assays to provide patient identification at the same time as generating test data. I have many responses from […]
I wanted to point my readers to BiteSizeBio as I have been writing for them for about a year now and my latest post has just been published on the NGS channel, A Short History of Sequencing Part 1.BiteSizeBio offers; “brain food for biologists”. It […]
There has been a battle going on between Life Technologies and Illumina for NGS supremacy, especially over the personal sequencer market. I am sure you saw the “PGM vs MiSeq” videos on YouTube (1, 2 & 3)? If you didn’t they are worth a look.However […]
Illumina just announced that they have aquired the Cambridge based BlueGnome, the company produces their own arrays for genetic screening and the BlueFuse analysis package.BlueGnome formed in 2002 to commercialise the BlueFuse microarray analysis software. This was the first software I know of that used […]
The 2013 AGBT meeting runs from the 20th to the 23rd of February and, as always, is in sunny Marco Island, Florida. This annual meeting is the one to watch for announcements around new genomics technologies. Last years hot topic was Oxford Nanopore’s announcement of […]
There has been lots of recent activity around using NGS gene resequencing in the clinic. Although clinical DNA sequencing has been an important tool for several decades the explosion in NGS methods for amplicon resequencing has made it feasible for just about any lab to […]
One of the things I most like about my job is being allowed to think. NGS has provided a very fertile ground for innovation and lots of novel ideas have become products we use regularly today. It is sometimes to easy to forget that any […]
Yesterday Illumina released their clinical research NGS kits called TruSight. TruSight: There are currently five kits in development, Cancer, Autism, Cardiomyopathy, Inherited disease and Human Gene Mutation Database Exome. Custom kits are sure to follow. Kits are designed to run on MiSeq ad the lab […]
I posted last week about the emerging field of Immunogenomics. Today I’ve taken a brief look at what is happening in Radiogenomics. Whilst this field is not using NGS in such a comprehensive way I think it can only be a matter of time before […]
The immune system is becoming easier to investigate as new methods based on nextgen sequencing are published. I am not an immunologist and the complexities of the immune system for me are stuck back in the days of my undergraduate training. And that was in […]
