Omics! Omics!

I've been playing off and on with Google's Ngram viewer since it was announced on Friday. This is the tool that enables you to gra...

This summer I took TNG to the Portsmouth Air Show to enjoy viewing aerobatics and looking at some aircraft up close. As with many such even...

The New England Journal of Medicine this week carries a paper from Harvard and Pacific Biosciences detailing the sequence of the Vibrio cho...

Yesterday's announcement of a microbe which not only tolerates arsenic but actually appears to incorporate it in place of phosphorous ha...

Monday's Globe had a blurb about a book signing which re-kindled a previus interest of mine. The author, Michael Dana Kennedy , had qui...

I've been grossly neglecting this space for an entire month with only the usual excuses -- big work projects, a lot of reading, etc. No...

I'm going to attempt to synthesize a number of thoughts which I've long pondered along with a bunch of news items I came across toda...

Kevin Davies' "The $1000 Genome" deserves to be widely read. Readers of this space will not be surprised that there are a few...

Although ovarian clear cell carcinoma does not respond well to conventional platinum–taxane chemotherapy for ovarian carcinoma, this remains...

My eldest brother was in town recently on business & in our many discussions reminded me of the thought-provoking essay " The Rise ...

A former colleague and friend has asked over on a LinkedIn group for speculation on which sequencing platform will deliver a $1K 30X human ...

An ongoing personal quest is to attempt to fill in the gaps in my original education, particularly outside the areas of science in which I f...

Bring up the subject of outsourcing, and many minds will immediately jump to the idea of a company using outside services to more cheaply re...

Tonight's big news is that Life Technologies, the giant formed by the merger of ABI and Invitrogen, has acquired Ion Torrent for an eye ...

I had an amusing dream the other night. Nothing earth shattering: neither starved calves consuming fatted ones nor serpentine molecular orb...

A bit after getting to my current shop, I requested some serious iron for my work and it was decided I would have a Linux box. The question...

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...