Omics! Omics!

I hoped this year to push myself to blog more frequently and regularly.  Clearly I did better than some years, but not up to the standard I ...

Ion Torrent released three more datasets this morning, all generated on their 318 chip.  One's from E.coli but two are human genomic sam...

One of the attractions of my new shop was the possibility to see a biotech company built from the ground up.  Each of my previous companies ...

The first computer I ever tried to program was built from a kit by my brother and father.  The DATAC-1000 was a single-board machine, with t...

Please take the title in the spirit it is intended: as a bit lighthearted. Seeing the object pictured and reading the accompanying blog pos...

When I discovered that my new gig would temporarily in Boston, I realized I had an opportunity to try out Boston's new bikeshare progra...

I went to an Infinity going-away lunch last week. We head off to some favorite local restaurant and order a modest (but delicious) meal on ...

Continuing my sports analogies, but switching games, in my coverage of the benchtop sequencer war today.  Alas, I can't refer to instant...

   A study by the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is published today suggesting that few U.S. states have adequate standards in pl...

      At the beginning of the month, I had dinner with J Adams from Azco Biotech and some friends/colleagues of his and talked over the Max-...

Back from vacation & watching another wave of Hurricane Irene soak the area (curiously, the windiest times so far seem to be breaks in t...

I will claim that I saw this coming, in that I've toyed with the basic skeleton of this post before.  But, I hadn't gotten around to...

The benchtop sequencer wars are heating up!  Illumina and Life are engaged in a fierce war of pamphlets and datasets to convince the world t...

I've previously complained about Ion Torrent's bungling and secrecy when it comes to educating their current and potential future us...

Clearly with a week having passed since touchdown, my farewell to the space shuttle program is grossly overdue.  I actually missed watching...

     Ion Torrent had a press release announcing a number of new components to the platform, as well as shipping of the 316 chip and a drop ...

    I recently remarked that it was surprising that PacBio had not jumped on the German E.coli outbreak strain, given CEO Eric Schadt's...

     Illumina has released a MiSeq dataset for E.coli MG1655 on its website.  Accompanying the FASTQ and BAM files is a presentation, the f...

      Ion Torrent has made available an E.coli DH10B fragment dataset for the 316 chi p, which is expected to be generally available early ...

Two administrative items: First, sometimes comments are getting moderated very late.  I do pledge this is not an attempt on my part to bury...