Cancer is a disease driven by mutation and copy-number aberration (CNA) yet most of the data generated to date has focused on SNV and InDel calling – the easy part of DNA analysis, particularly in ctDNA. This means that not enough focus has been put […]
10Xgenomics buys Spatial Transcriptomics: Single-cell methods are having at least as big an impact on our understanding of biology as microarrays did when they first appeared in the mid-to-late 1990s. And now that 10X Genomics have bought Spatial Transcriptomics many single-cell users are likely to […]
Three recent papers from Sam Apraicio (@sajraparicio) and Sorab Shah (@SohrabShah) are well worth a read on BioRxiv. In June Kieran Cambell posted a paper describing computational methods to integrate single-cell DNA and RNA-Seq data. And in September Camila de Souza and Emma Laks posted reports […]
Andrew Adey’s group at OHSU published sci-MET – a single cell method for whole-genome methylation analysis in Nature Biotech last month: Highly scalable generation of DNA methylation profiles in single cells. In this they described their indexing method and report on an analysis of over 3000 […]
“It’s not the size that matters, it’s what you do with it that counts!” Turns out that the first statement very much does matter when it comes to cell free DNA. It is becoming clearer that the size of cfDNA and ctDNA is information that […]
On Friday last week I had the pleasure of hosting a half-day Nanostring symposium at Cancer Research UK’s Cambridge Institute (my previous employer). The symposium was arranged as an opportunity to get Nanostring users, and potential users, together to hear about the exciting developments in […]
The FDA issued a safety communication today on the risk that biotin supplements “can significantly interfere with certain lab tests and cause incorrect test results”. The FDA communiqué mentions an increase in reported adverse events, and even one death, because of Biotin interference. Biotin interferes with some […]
Last week the first issue of a new journal debuted: The CRISPR Journal. With a massive number of journals out there why should any of us care about a new one? I would not normally read the first issue of a Journal (although I did […]
Two papers in Science last week show how CRISPR can be used as a diagnostic tool. The first comes from the same team at The Broad that brought us the SHERLOCK method, the second from Jennifer Dounda’s group at Berkley. Both methods promise simple diagnostics […]
The 10XGenomics workshop just closed at AGBT and they announced some truly revolutionary new applications: single-cell feature barcoding, single-cell ATAC-Seq and single-cell CNV (feat CBGB). I’ll go through each of these in more detail below but I wanted to start by highlighting the success of single-cell analysis […]
