Omics! Omics!

Last week at this time I was surviving a terrible electrical storm -- tremendous cracks and crackles all around me. Luckily, it was just th...

I can't believe how thrilled I was to get a run-time error today! Because that was the first sign I had gotten past the Scala roadblock...

Well, I've taken the plunge -- yet another programming language. I've written before about this. It's also a common question on...

The Sanger Institute's paper in Science describing the sequencing of multiple MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) genomes...

My post yesterday was successful at narrowing down the identity of the mystery creature to a spider of the genus Araneus. Another victory ...

As a youth, I was fortunate enough to spend four summers working as a camp counselor. Three of those were spent in the Nature Department, p...

Illumina announced their new HiSeq 2000 instrument today. There are some great summaries at Genetic Future and PolitGenomics ; read both f...

Friday's Wall Street Journal had a piece in the back opinion section (which has items about culture & religion and similar stuff) d...

I got a phone call today from someone asking permission to suggest me as a reviewer of a manuscript this person was about to submit. For fu...

I was looking through part of my collection of papers using Illumina sequencing and discovered an unpleasant surprise: more than one does no...

A few months ago I blogged enthusiastically about a paper in Science describing an approach to deorphan enzymes in parallel. Two anonymous...

Nature this week published two papers describing the complete sequencing of a cancer cell line (small cell lung cancer (SCLC) NCI-H209 and m...

  Today's big genomics news is the advance publication in Nature of the giant panda (aka panda bear) genome sequence. For I'll be ...

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...