Omics! Omics!

For the second time this summer Science has another step forward in understanding the genetics of dog breeds. Previously it was the identif...

I'm really grateful for the comments on my bit about genome assembly , two of whom (one of which is a leading author in genome assembly)...

Question to ponder: given a genome assembly, how much can we ascertain as to why it didn't fully assemble. I've gotten to thinking a...

I was away on vacation, enjoying an Internet-free existence on a tropical isle, when the brouhaha over Stephen Quake's genome sequencing...

60 years ago today, 15 young men floated out of a Montana sky onto rugged ground below. They were there to join another already on the scen...

I spent a chunk of a day early last month dusting off my old lab skills. The rationale was that we were losing the senior lab tech who was ...

I would have thought this to be an April's Fool prank, except I came across the dataset while browsing the NCBI Short Read Archive. It ...

> Several papers in a row tripped over one of my pet peeves. Why does anyone who cares about their data use a perspective pie chart? Pie...

Scientists are rarely trained in finance, and even more rarely comfortable with it. In an ideal world, experiments just happen and somehow ...

I was playing with the data from an early RNA-Seq paper just to have a general idea of what such data looks like and to check out some favo...

Amongst the news last week is a bit of a surprise: the salmon genome project is choosing Sanger sequencing for the first phase of the projec...

The current issue of Cancer Research carries a very brief (3 pages, with one page mostly tables & figures) review of the first pulse of ...

My interest in next-generation sequencing is well on the way from shifting from hobby to work-central, which is exciting. So I'm now re...

Now that I'm back in the cancer field full-time, I spend a lot of that time pondering the mysteries of the disease. Despite an explosio...

The much heralded web tool Wolfram Alpha debuted yesterday -- and I completely forgot about it. But today a coworker asked me about it ...

Today's Globe has a profile of the do-it-yourself genetic testing experiment that my former colleague Kay Aull is performing. Among th...

I've always been a fan of the space program and I like movies, so when a movie astronaut speaks I listen. Since Beyond Genomics changed...

There is a very interesting paper in Science from a week ago which hearkens back to my gene synthesis days at Codon. But first, some backgr...

Here's a decidedly odd gendanken experiment which illustrates what next-gen sequencing is doing to the ocst. A common way of deriving th...

TNG and i closed out the ski season a week ago. It's some great time together, but it also ends up being at times a bit of a solitary a...