Omics! Omics!

Okay, it was an outside speaker at work who planted this seed in my brain, and now I can't shake the image -- but perhaps by writing thi...

Okay, minor pet peeve. I've pretty much switched over to using Outlook as an RSS reader to keep up with journals of interest. I still ...

Standing next to the Polonator like a proud relative is Kevin McCarthy, who leads the Polonator effort at Dover Systems. I had remembered h...

The September 24th Nature came in the mail today and as always with this journal (otherwise I wouldn't pay for it!) is full of interesti...

Yesterday was a good day for catching up on the literature; not only did I finally get around to the IL28B papers I blogged about yesterday,...

I finally got around to reading the Nature News & Views article by Iadonato and Katze summarizing and opining on the recent quartet of p...

Final day of conference, with some serious fatigue setting in (my hotel room was too close to, and faced, a highway. Doh!) Discovered that I...

I'll confess that in the morning I took notes on only one talk, but the afternoon got back into gear. The morning talk was by John Quack...

Interesting set of talks today. I never did explicitly check on the blogging policy, but given that the session chair kidded a speaker that...

I'm going to be at Cambridge HealthTech's Next-Gen Sequencing Conference in exotic Providence RI for the next few days. I need to c...

I've crossed fruit flies, tomatoes and yeast, but I would clearly draw the line before taking on this project. A genetic linkage map for...

A question raised by a commenter on yesterday's piece about codon optimization is how critical is this for the typical molecular biolog...

In a previous post I asked " Is Codon Optimization Bunk? ", reflecting on a paper which showed that the typical rules for codon op...

Normally this time of year I would be watching the weather forecasts checking for the dreaded early frost which slays tomato plants, often f...

A second paper which triggered my current physical map madness is a piece (open access!) arguing for the adaptation of HAPPY mapping to nex...

The autumnal equinox is still a few weeks away, but today marks the traditional end of the summer vacation season. How does a genomics geek...

How do we build physical map? In the abstract, a physical map is built by first dividing the genome up into either individual pieces or poo...