Omics! Omics!

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

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

One of the many interesting ASHG tidbits from the Twitter feed is a comment from "suganthibala" which I'll quote in full On a...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...