There are six people working in the Genomics Core lab I run, including myself. It is exactly five years since I started and in that time five members of my team have come and gone. The next person to go will mean I hit a […]
Illumina’s stock has dropped dramatically in the last few months.I have watched Illumina over the last six or seven years and their price has seemed to follow a continual upward trajectory. With the exception of a couple of hiccups, one of which was caused by […]
GlaxoSmithKline have won the contract to help perform drug testing at next summers 2012 Olympic games with King’s College London’s Drug Control Centre. There is a report on the BBC news from the 10th of October which is still being repeated. It is, quite frankly, […]
Illumina are currently offering a demo kit for custom TruSeq capture. I thought I would try it out on some genes from COSMIC and see how easy it was to design a capture set using their DesignStudio tool. There is also a pricing calculator I […]
In the last few days there has been a mini splurge in papers reviewing capture technologies. I thought it would be useful to write an overview of these. I have been involved in several comparison papers and so am aware of the limitations of comparison […]
I made a decision to try and build my kids a little dinghy so they could row about our local river and we might also spend a weekend on the Broads.Some of you will be thinking this guy runs a genomics lab and that the […]
23andMe just launched their new programme to perform exome sequencing for individuals. The Exome80 “Personal exome sequencing” will cost just $999! This will now put pressure on some of those who have had their genomes scanned on arrays to pay up for the exome or […]
There is an enormous demand for resequencing of specific cancer loci. BRCA1 & 2, TP53, PTEN, KRAS, are already being Sanger sequenced in many labs but this process is not scalable to all cancer patients’ tumours. Some NHS hospitals do test cancer patients tumours for […]
It’s my birthday in a few weeks and I thought I’d get myself genotyped by 23andMe as a birthday present to myself.The lab I run offers genotyping and whole genome sequencing so it feels a bit crazy to be sending this out to a company […]
Are you considering a science degree? If so then the BBC has a finance calculator on its website designed for students in the UK who could be going off to Uni in September 2012. This is designed to help students get an idea of how […]
