Omics! Omics!

Genentech and Affymetrix just published a huge paper in Nature using a novel technology to scan 4Mb in 441 tumor genomes for mutations, the ...

I had lunch today with a friend & former colleague who sells some cool genomics gadgets. One thing I've noted about him is whenever...

Today I finally gave in to temptation & developed a Hello World application for my Droid. Okay, developed is a gross overstatement -- I...

A key discovery which is made by many programmers, both inside and outside bioinformatics, is that Microsoft Excel is very useful as a gener...

I got an email today pointing out that Cofactor Genomics will be responsible for generating Ozzie Osbourne's genome sequence for Knome ....

After thinking about my previous entry on PacBio's sample prep and variant sensitivity paper I realized there was a significant gap -- ...

PacBio has a paper in Nucleic Acid Research giving a few more details on sample prep and some limited sequencing quality data on their plat...

The latest company to make a splashy debut is GnuBio, a startup out of Harvard which gave a presentation at the recent Personal Genomics con...

I know the title looks like a malapropism, but it isn't. What I'm trying to do is wean myself away from bulleted lists in PowerPoin...

At the beginning of the weekend I received a real shock: one of the other father's in TNG's Cub Scout Pack had died of sepsis after ...

I have an invited piece on the various sequencing instruments over at MolBio Research Highlights . The fact that much of it is an extended...

Okay, a little bragging: I biked into to work last week for Bike to Work week. I actually bike the last leg of my commute a lot of days now ...

A consistently reappearing thread in any bioinformatics discussion space is "What programming language should I learn/teach?". As...

The world is abuzz with the announcement by Craig Venter and colleagues that they have successfully booted up a synthetic bacterial genome. ...

I've only seen it a few times, but the sight of the iconic cavernous building always makes my heart race. But this time even more so, a...

Two weeks ago I participated in a roundtable sponsored by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) titled "R&D IT ...

When learning a new language, it is tempting to fall back on the patterns of a previous language. This isn't always a bad thing but is ...

A review by me titled " Application of Second Generation Sequencing to Cancer Genomics " is now available on the Advance Access se...

I recently got around to reading the "Human Genome at 10" issue of Nature. One feature, on facing pages, are opinion pieces by Ro...

Well, it was inevitable. A huge (and expensive) case of confused human genome versions. While the human genome is 10 years old, that was ha...