This post (and others like it) are pure speculation from me. I have no insider knowledge and am trying to make some educated guesses as to where technologies like this might go. This is part of my job description in many ways as I need […]
I was at the 3rd NGS congress in London on Monday and Tuesday this week and one of the topics we discussed in questions was quantitation of Illumina sequencing libraries. It is still a challenge for many labs and results in varying yields. The people […]
Thanks very much to the people that sent me some more chips for an improved set of cuff links. I was not sure whether you required anonymity or not so erred on the side of caution!It would take quite a nerd to spot the difference […]
I have been collecting genomics technologies for a while to create a little display of old and current consumables. As part of this collecting I had more Ion chips than I needed and decided to try and get creative.The result is (I think) quite a […]
Danielle Perrin, from the genome centre at Broad presents an interesting webinar demonstrating what the Broad intends to do with MiSeq and lastly a 300bp single read dataset. Watch the seminar here. I thought I’d summarise the webinar as it neatly follows on from a […]
Lots of excitement today on checking to see if my sample has been processed, the results are ready.You can see I checked the “please load my health data”, I guess 23andMe want to make sure you really really do want to find things out about […]
I always struggle when it comes to writing in someones leaving card. I’d like to be witty and at the same time show the person that I remembered them and enjoyed working with them. However most of the time something short gets quickly scribbled. We […]
My kit arrived, I spat and it is now being processed. It is a pretty neat package with easy to follow instructions. Inside the package was a box containing the kit, which is an Oragene product. Has anyone tested their RNA kits yet?Before sending it […]
Updated!I was presenting today at an EBI workshop and was followed by Matt Dyer, senior product manager bioinformatics at Ion Torrent. He gave a good introduction to the platform an recent development and then went onto a hands on demo of the Torrent suite of […]
A short while ago I posted about the recent exome sequencingcomparisons in Genome Research. In that post I did ask whether we really need to target the exome at all and if targeted amplicon sequencing might be a better fit for some projects. In the […]
