Omics! Omics!

A nice complement to the one paper (Ng et al) I detailed last week is a paper that actually came out just before hand (Choi et al). Wherea...

Second generation sequencing is great, but one of it's major issues so far is that the cost of one experiment is quite steep. Just look...

The news that Decode has filed for bankruptcy is a sad milestone in the history of genomics companies. Thus falls either the final or penu...

Nature Genetics on Friday released the paper from Jay Shendure, Debra Nickerson and colleagues which used targeted sequencing to identify th...

With valuable information emerging from the 1000 (human) genomes project and now a proposal for a 10,000 vertebrate genome project , it...

There's a great article in the current Nature Biotechnology (alas, you'll need a subscription to read the full text) titled "T...

A clinical aside by Dr. Steve over at Gene Sherpas piqued my interested recently. He mentioned a 74 year old female patient of his with lu...

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...