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A computational biologist's personal views on new technologies & publications on genomics & proteomics and their impact on drug discovery

Monday, January 30, 2012

Does Illlmina Also Have A Homopolymer Problem?

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One of the most widely-publicized error modes with Ion Torrent and 454 sequencing has been the challenge of correctly counting the number of...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Roche Guns For Illumina

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Due to a business dinner & general exhaustion, I turned in early last night & was caught unaware this morning of the big news: Roche...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Sequencing Technology Fireworks

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I actually awoke today expecting an exciting press release , but I sure wasn't prepared for the big announcements from Ion and Illumina....
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Saturday, January 07, 2012

Ion Torrent Pairs: To What End?

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Ion Torrent quietly released a set of paired end datasets over the holiday break.  This is a bit embarassing for me, as in my last post on ...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Year's End

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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 ...
Friday, December 09, 2011

Reflecting on a Year of Ion Torrent

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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...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Fitting Out

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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 ...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

MiSeq Made Easy?

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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...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Thinking Outside the Box or Just Plain Nuts?

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Please take the title in the spirit it is intended: as a bit lighthearted. Seeing the object pictured and reading the accompanying blog pos...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Boston's Boris Bikes

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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...
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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Transitions

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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 ...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Illumina Calls for a Flag on the Play

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Continuing my sports analogies, but switching games, in my coverage of the benchtop sequencer war today.  Alas, I can't refer to instant...
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Thursday, September 01, 2011

Genetic Education:

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   A study by the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is published today suggesting that few U.S. states have adequate standards in pl...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Will Max-Seq Gain Traction?

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      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-...
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Wishing I Had Been A Referee: A Renaissance for Tagamet?

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Back from vacation & watching another wave of Hurricane Irene soak the area (curiously, the windiest times so far seem to be breaks in t...
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Monday, August 08, 2011

Names in Collision

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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...
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Thursday, August 04, 2011

Ion Throws A Long Punch At MiSeq

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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...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

How Many Toes Does Ion Have Left?

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I've previously complained about Ion Torrent's bungling and secrecy when it comes to educating their current and potential future us...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Tschuess, Shuttle!

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Clearly with a week having passed since touchdown, my farewell to the space shuttle program is grossly overdue.  I actually missed watching...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Ion's Gaggle of New Accessory Products

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     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 ...
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Keith Robison
Dr. Robison spent 10 years at Millennium Pharmaceuticals working with various genomics & proteomics technologies & working on multiple teams attempting to apply these throughout the drug discovery process. He spent 2 years at Codon Devices working on a variety of protein & metabolic engineering projects as well as monitoring a high-throughput gene synthesis facility. After a brief bit of consulting, he rejoined the cancer drug discovery field at Infinity Pharmaceuticals in May 2009. In September 2011 he joined Warp Drive Bio, a startup applying genomics to natural product drug discovery. In February 2019 he joined Ginkgo Bioworks, a synthetic biology company. Other recurring characters in this blog are his late loyal Shih Tzu Amanda, his current Shih Poo Lily and his now adult son alias TNG (The Next Generation). Dr. Robison can be reached via his Gmail account, keith.e.robison@gmail.com You can also follow him on Twitter as @OmicsOmicsBlog.
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