Omics! Omics!

In a post a while back , I mentioned that my Ion Torrent sequencing project was stalled because my service provider couldn't get some of...

Someone was kind enough to send me a copy of a poster by Illumina reporting results from the MiSeq.  Now, to be very upfront, by someone I m...

Around the Internet, there are a number of communities in which scientists can swap useful information.   SEQAnswers is a very useful site ...

Through the course of a month, I easily sketch out (on average) a dozen plus experimental designs in the context of my day job.  Of course, ...

Blogger experienced an outage which I found out about today.  This caused my last post to disappear; any posts or comments in a certain time...

A recent In Sequence article indicated that Ion Torrent is enjoying strong initial sales .  This bodes well for continued evolution and impr...

One of the key questions around Ion Torrent, as with all new platforms, is what is the sequence data quality like.  Now, that can be a loade...

Noted screenwriter William Goldman's second memoir on the film industry is titled " Which Lie Did I Tell? ".  The title is not...

Amongst last week's news is the item that P acific Biosciences has officially launched their SMRT sequencing platform .  I'd too eye...

One of the perceived weak points of the Ion Torrent, in contrast to the Illumina, has been the use of emulsion PCR for template preparation....

It has hardly gone unreported in the media that today marks the 50th anniversary of the manned spaceflight and the 30th of the first space ...

A commenter on yesterday's piece on Intelligent Biosystems scolded me on not mentioning GnuBio and said they had released data.  This h...

An article in GenomeWeb's In Sequence (which, alas, requires a subscription for which I've never sprung) has a p iece on Intelligent...

For the second time in just over a week, the Boston Globe Sunday was discussing protein kinases in the context of cancer.  A group from the ...

The New England chapter of the Laboratory Robot Interest Group ( NE-LRIG ) had a nice meeting tonight over at Astra Zeneca's beautiful W...

After years of scribbling on a motley collection of pads, during my time at Infinity I've been nearly rigorous about using a single note...

My neighbors are up to their loud antics again; a really wild singles party. Fact of the matter is, I checked very carefully one evening be...

Even when I was finishing up as a graduate student, and only a few bacterial genomes had been published, one would periodically hear open sp...

One theme in some of the comments on my Ion Torrent commentary has been around the limitations of emulsion PCR. Some have made rather bold...

My recent run of posts on Ion Torrent certainly garnered a lot of comments, and it would be much less than honest to say that many of the c...