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A computational biologist's personal views on new technologies & publications on genomics & proteomics and their impact on drug discovery

Thursday, October 29, 2009

My Most Expensive Paper

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Genome Research has a paper detailing the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) , and if you look way down on the long author list (which includes...
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Monday, October 26, 2009

DTC CNVs?

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Curiosity question: do the current DTC genomics companies report out copy number variations (CNVs) to their customers? Are any of their tec...
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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Now where did I misplace that genome segment of mine?

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One of the many interesting ASHG tidbits from the Twitter feed is a comment from "suganthibala" which I'll quote in full On a...
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ASHG Tweets: Minor Fix or Slow Torture?

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Okay, I'll admit it: I've been ignoring Twitter. It doesn't help that I never really learned to text (I might have sent one in ...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Physical Maps IV: Twilight of the Clones?

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I've been completely slacking on completing my self-imposed series on how second generation sequencing (I'm finally trying to kick t...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Why I'm Not Crazy About The Term "Exome Sequencing"

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I find myself worrying sometimes that I worry too much about the words I use -- and worry some of the rest of the time that I don't worr...
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Friday, October 09, 2009

Bad blog! Bad, bad, bad blog!

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Thanks to Dan Koboldt from Mass Genomics, I've discovered that another blog (the Oregon Personal Injury Law Blog had copied my breast c...
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Nano Anglerfish Snag Orphan Enzymes

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The new Science has an extremely impressive paper tackling the problem of orphan enzymes. Due primarily to Watson-Crick basepairing, our ab...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

The genomic history of a breast cancer revealed

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Today's Nature contains a great paper which is one more step forward for cancer genomics. Using Illumina sequencing a group in British ...
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Diagramming the Atari Pathway

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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...
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Why does PNAS clip their RSS feeds?

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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 ...
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Thursday, October 01, 2009

Pondering Polonators

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Standing next to the Polonator like a proud relative is Kevin McCarthy, who leads the Polonator effort at Dover Systems. I had remembered h...
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Monday, September 28, 2009

Locking in new functions

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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...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

How many genomes did I just squash?

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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,...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Unwarranted pessimism on IL28A/B & HCV?

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I finally got around to reading the Nature News & Views article by Iadonato and Katze summarizing and opining on the recent quartet of p...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

CHI Next-Gen Conference, Day 3 (final)

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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...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

CHI Next-Gen Conference, Day 2

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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...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

CHI Next-Gen Conference, Day 1

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Interesting set of talks today. I never did explicitly check on the blogging policy, but given that the session chair kidded a speaker that...
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Keith Robison
Dr. Robison spent 10 years at Millennium Pharmaceuticals working with various genomics & proteomics technologies & working on multiple teams attempting to apply these throughout the drug discovery process. He spent 2 years at Codon Devices working on a variety of protein & metabolic engineering projects as well as monitoring a high-throughput gene synthesis facility. After a brief bit of consulting, he rejoined the cancer drug discovery field at Infinity Pharmaceuticals in May 2009. In September 2011 he joined Warp Drive Bio, a startup applying genomics to natural product drug discovery. In February 2019 he joined Ginkgo Bioworks, a synthetic biology company. Other recurring characters in this blog are his late loyal Shih Tzu Amanda, his current Shih Poo Lily and his now adult son alias TNG (The Next Generation). Dr. Robison can be reached via his Gmail account, keith.e.robison@gmail.com You can also follow him on Twitter as @OmicsOmicsBlog.
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