3 11, 2012

Session 1: Cancer genome sequencing

By | November 3rd, 2012|Categories: Conferences|1 Comment

Go back to the summary of the CRI symposium.Overall summary: The top10 BrCA CaGens only account for 50% of mutation load, the tail is going to be important in personalising treatment. Some patients  only show a single driver mutation, can cancer be driven by a […]

22 02, 2012

AGBT wrap up

By | February 22nd, 2012|Categories: Conferences, Next-generation sequencing|1 Comment

AGBT is over and what a meeting it was. I have never been to a conference where it felt like everyone, and it really did feel like everyone was talking about the same thing over lunch. Oxford Nanopore made a big impact.There has been some […]

18 02, 2012

AGBT 2012 day 2

By | February 18th, 2012|Categories: Conferences, Next-generation sequencing|1 Comment

Rick Myers, HudsonAlpha Institute. Genetics and Epigenetics of Human Gene Regulation: Eukaryotic genome architecture is complex, cis and trans components looks like 1800 DNA binding proteins (what do they all do, can we find out before 2020). Talked about the promoter expansion in EPM1 gene […]

17 02, 2012

AGBT 2012 day 1

By | February 17th, 2012|Categories: Conferences, Next-generation sequencing|1 Comment

Day one of my attendance at the 2012 AGBT conference.I missed the Wednesday workshop, “Utilization of New DNA Sequencing Technologies” and the welcome reception which this year was sponsored by Agilent Technologies.Getting through Miami airport was a chore, nealr two hours for security!I decided to […]

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