Omics! Omics!

This past presidential election was as nasty as any in recent memory, and so perhaps folks are reviewing their support for Churchill's d...

It's gratifying to see that yesterday's The Trouble with FASTQ item gathered a number of lively comments, and there are certainly a...

I spend a lot of time working with sequencing data, and the most common format for such data is FASTQ.  FASTQ has many things to appreciat...

Speaking of Twitter , one thing I've found it highly valuable for is discovering new tools and ideas in the bioinformatics space.  It...

For a long while, my only interaction with Twitter was to monitor key hashtags during AGBT and ASHG.  However, I've gotten myself sucked...

A confession: I've considered writing this piece for a lot of years now; not quite as many as this space has existed, but many years.  S...

It's fall, and the foliage in New England is putting on its usual spectacular show.  What isn't showing is any of the progress in na...

Roughly speaking, NGS sample preparation workflows can be split into two basic classes of workflows.  Complete molecule workflows are curren...

An email this morning alerted me that BGI Shenzhen is acquiring Complete Genomics.  I hadn't been following Complete's business very...

A news item meant to shock its readers caught my eye, but in the end I was shocked and sickened in a way that I think lay far beyond the wri...

If you tour around the extended Kendall Square area of Cambridge, you'll find a number of large construction sites.  Various projects fo...

When I was a boy, a nearly annual occurrence was a trip to Kentucky to my maternal grandparents' house.  My biological grandmother died ...

Besides the l ittle cancer genomics piece yesterday, another genomics paper getting quite a bit of popular press attention is the nice work...

The newswires are alive with summaries of an item in Science Express which, discounting the supplementary material, isn't much bigger t...

Recently, the topic of jackalopes showed up at work.  Anyone who has toured the American West has probably come across postcards of these c...

I had a bit of a long commute yesterday, driving from south-central New Jersey up to Starbase Cambridge.  In general it's a dull ride, h...

In Nature this week (as an open access article!) is a report from Complete Genomics and collaborators describing CG's new "Long Fr...

Today's news (take your pick of Bio-IT or GenomeWeb  for original stories) is that Qiagen has bought out Intelligent Biosystems (IBS), ...

A piece of advice for anyone in the bioinformatics world: get working knowledge of the Amazon EC2 cloud computing system.  Now, there is a ...

The annual BIO meeting will be in Boston next week, so the media is looking a little bit more at our sector.  Today's Globe has an Op-Ed...