Design, replication, multiplexing. These are the three things I spend most of my time discussing in experimental design meetings. In my institute we hold three 30-minute design sessions every week where users talk to my group and our bioinformatics core about how best to run a […]
George Church is one of the “godfathers of genomicsâ€*. In one of his latest publications, Next-Generation Digital Information Storage in DNA he demonstrates how to use DNA as an information storage medium. He’s not the first to do this and the supplemental information to the […]
This is a slightly wacky post but I did warn you I’d go off on tangents sometimes!My new bike, multi-tool comparisons and “how fast can you unfold a Brompton?”My old bike was stolen back in March. We had gone to the campus bar to celebrate […]
A few weeks ago I wrote about an idea I had been thinking about for a while for using SNPs as additional content in capture or amplicon assays to provide patient identification at the same time as generating test data. I have many responses from […]
I wanted to point my readers to BiteSizeBio as I have been writing for them for about a year now and my latest post has just been published on the NGS channel, A Short History of Sequencing Part 1.BiteSizeBio offers; “brain food for biologists”. It […]
There has been a battle going on between Life Technologies and Illumina for NGS supremacy, especially over the personal sequencer market. I am sure you saw the “PGM vs MiSeq” videos on YouTube (1, 2 & 3)? If you didn’t they are worth a look.However […]
Illumina just announced that they have aquired the Cambridge based BlueGnome, the company produces their own arrays for genetic screening and the BlueFuse analysis package.BlueGnome formed in 2002 to commercialise the BlueFuse microarray analysis software. This was the first software I know of that used […]
The 2013 AGBT meeting runs from the 20th to the 23rd of February and, as always, is in sunny Marco Island, Florida. This annual meeting is the one to watch for announcements around new genomics technologies. Last years hot topic was Oxford Nanopore’s announcement of […]
Apologies to readers who might have been hoping for some posts over the past few weeks but I have been offline whilst holidaying in France and Spain.One of my “to-do’s” before I left was to respond to the “change your password or you’ll be locked […]
Sense About Science is an organisation that tries to provide expert advice on scientific matters to whoever needs it. They monitor the papers and news and produces an annual “Celebrities and Science†round up of the best and worst comments from people in the public […]
