Omics! Omics!

The last two days have been active on the NASDAQ for the old stomping grounds. Prior to the trading day yesterday a stock analyst upgraded ...

There are some food combinations which reoccur frequently in the culinary arts. The pairing of basil and tomato is not only a dominant part...

Roche is on quite a little acquisition spree in the diagnostics business: first went 454 with its first-to-market sequencing-by-synthesis t...

One of my early graduate rotation projects (the period when you are scoping out an advisor -- and the advisor is scoping you out!) in the Ch...

I was out this evening introducing my legacy to the fine points of pea picking. He looked at the hanging pods and asked: "How can you ...

I couldn't help but be amused by the headline in today's Boston Glob: " Breast cancer genes can come from father ". Wow! ...

In one of my first posts I commented on the challenge of obtaining samples for microarray and other biomarker work. Getting samples for mic...

It is an honor that my piece on genome sequencing to explore rare genetic diseases was accepted into Tuesday's Grand Rounds , a venerab...

As I've commented previously, it is pleasing when a new biological finding can be related to something both familiar and pleasing. In t...

This week marks the 18th anniversary of my first attempt to sequence DNA. It did not occur to me then that my destiny would be to interpret...

Over at Eye on DNA an MD's op-ed column on genetic association studies is getting a good roasting . The naivete about the interplay of ...

For the last decade plus my main programming language has been Perl. It has served me often and served me well, but during that time I subm...

I recently finished an interesting book that was a pure impulse item at the local library -- those scheming librarians put books on display ...

The new Science (sorry, you'll need a subscription beyond the abstracts) has a bunch of genomics papers, but the one closest to my heart...

When I was out in the garden yesterday a smile was brought to my face by some purple blossoms immediately adjacent to some white ones. Thos...

Molecular Systems Biology, an open access journal, has an impressive new functional protein microarray paper . The authors identified a lar...

ABI announced today that it has has started delivering its SOLiD next generation sequencing instruments to early access customers and will ...

In yesterday's speculation about chasing rare diseases with full human genome sequences, I completely ignored one major challenge: hapl...

Blog carnivals are a wonderful thing: a bunch of bloggers with related topics take turns writing capsule summaries of other blog entries, fo...

The following is based on a chance encounter with a stranger. I don't believe I am violating any ethical lines, but will entertain crit...