1st RULE: Everyone votes at cake club. 2nd RULE: EVERYONE votes at cake club. 3rd RULE: If someone says “burnt” the cake is over. 4th RULE: Only one person can bake. 5th RULE: Only one cake at a time. 6th RULE: No shop bought, no […]
Update 25th April: Illumina have released a support bulletin “Best Practices for High Sensitivity Applications: Minimizing Sample Carryover”, this is accessible through Illumina’s website, or SEQanswers. You’ll need an Illumina login!Illumina say that sample carryover is more likely to have an effect on very low […]
We have some old lab equipment we are getting rid of much of it will be recycled into other University departments. Some will be sold to equipment resellers like Biagen, Alliance Analytical, and Harlow Scientific. Some of it may even end up in the skip. […]
Updated after reading this post on GenomeWeb!Oxford University and the NHS announced the UK’s first next-generation sequencing based test for Cancer. The test uses Life Technologies Ion Torrent PGM and AmpliSeq to assay 46 gene “hotspots”, but should increase to around 150 genes in the […]
A colleague and I were discussing the woes of post-docs trying to find their next job, or a tenure-track position. My colleague was relating the story of a mutual friend who recently published an excellent first-tier publication and was still having problems finding a junior […]
I would like to move from microarray based genotyping to NGS for copy-number and loss-of-heterozygosity analysis. The copy-number bit should be relatively simple and I hope we’ll have done this by the end of the year, however the LOH analysis is more complex as it […]
Does your lab look like this? We get most of our deliveries on dry-ice shipped from European distribution centres. All the polystyrene and dry-ice are the tip of our energy consumption iceberg. Genomics sciences have as much environmental impact as just about everything else, and […]
Nick Loman had a nice cosy chat with Clive Brown at AGBT and tells us all about it on his blog Pathgogens: Genes and Genomes. It reads to me like a very reasonable assessment of why we have heard so little from Oxford Nanopore in […]
The 14th AGBT meeting kicks off in one week. Unfortunately I won’t be there this year so don’t expect a daily round-up of what’s good from me! For those of you blogging and tweeting AGBT have crafted some simple graphics to indicate what you can, […]
Two big news stories have been in the headlines in the past seven days. The first is the discovery of Richard the 3rds body, the second is the detection of Horse DNA in processed meat products. Both made me realise they are great stories to […]
