Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Dad Had Manuals, I Have An Agent

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My father was a very methodical person, and that particularly applied when he decided to purchase the second IBM PC clone to appear on the m...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Element's Curious Patentsieg

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Last week news broke that Element Biosciences had won a patent lawsuit against Illumina, and that it affected MiSeq.  MiSeq????  How did a p...
Monday, July 20, 2026

Fiber-Seq: Plasmids Model Chromosomes Well

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A recent publication in Molecular Cell involving Fiber-Seq caught my attention, though I've since discovered this preprinted over a yea...
Friday, July 10, 2026

The Simulator That Isn't There

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Okay, this is one of those cases where I kvetch about other people not having built the tools I want to use - perhaps a bit of a insufferabl...
Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Countable Labs Raises Funds, Heads to Clinic

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I caught up by teleconference recently with Countable Labs CEO Giovanna Prout, fresh off Countable Labs' $26M equity fundraising - a rou...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

Alex Hastie Returns to BioNano, Takes CSO Reins

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An interesting news item this week is that BioNano Genomics has appointed Alex Hastie as Chief Scientific Officer.  Hastie is an obvious cho...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2026

E.coli Doesn't Like Diets Either, At Least Genomic Ones

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Another interesting preprint that fits several recent themes - genome minimization, discontinuation of products - comes from a Japanese grou...