Last week I posted on the press releases from Illumina and Life Technologies. I wanted to follow up in this post with some more details after talking to Illumina. I have to say that the details on the new flowcell are not directly from Illumina. […]
The recent announcements from Life Tech and Illumina, and the expected announcements from the competing technologies are giving us a hint of what it will be like to live in the $1000 genome world. From a genomics perspective the reduction in sequencing costs is very […]
In a previous post I discussed Ilumina and LifeTechs Amplicon sequencing products: TruSeq Custom Amplicon and AmpliSeq. Here I wanted to expand on the methods available and discuss some of the issues faced by people wanting to run amplicon sequencing projects. Below I briefly discuss […]
LifeTech and ABI have been battling it out for supremacy in next-gen sequencing for the last four years. Traditionally the lead up to the AGBT (Advances in Genome Biotechnology) conference has seen the major sequencing companies announce their latest developments. It is always exciting and […]
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to everyone that read my blog this year. I only started in May and have had some great feedback. I’d seriously encourage others to start blogging too. It’s great fun and the discipline of trying to write something […]
It’s that time of year when kids come home from school and start complaining of “the itchesâ€; the nits are back.I don’t know about the rest of the world but here in the UK we used to have “nit nurses†who would go from school […]
A recent advertising flyer from Life Tech seems to borrow from the GoogleMap of next-gen sequencers by suggesting to their community to “get on the map”. The backdrop to the ad is a map of the world with highlighted areas where the reader might assume […]
There are over 9000 Human transcripts <200bp in length which is about 5% of the total number of transcripts. When analysing some recent RNA-seq data here at CRI we noticed that only 17 detected transcripts from almost 30,000 are from transcripts shorter than 200bp. About […]
We are producing a lot of sequence data (see the GoogleMap and a previous post). And will continue to produce a lot more, Illumina have just made noises about 1TB runs on HiSeq using PE100bp runs (whether they will actually release this given recent stock […]
A box plot conveys a lot of information and can be a very powerful tool. Excel does not generate these as part of its basic funtctions and I have never found time to learn how to do this in R orGather your data togather in […]
