Omics! Omics!

As I mentioned recently, I've been exploring how I might use the emerging Julia language to solve problems.  While that requires a large...

I don't read a lot of books aimed at the MBA crowd, but one set I have liked, and sometimes cite here, are Clayton Christensen's on...

As I've remarked before, I've done significant coding in a large number of languages over the last 35-or-so years.  I don't cons...

One of the most electrifying talks at AGBT this year was given by Joe DeRisi of UCSF, who gave a brief intro on the difficulty of diagnosin...

The sun set during AGBT 2014 for a final time over a week ago.  The posters have long been down, and perhaps the liver enzyme levels of...

I was foolishly attempting to catch up with Twitter last night during Valerie Schneider's AGBT talk last night on the new human referenc...

Illumina made a brace of big hardware announcements at this week's J.P. Morgan conference, and Mick Watson has done a nice job of co...

An evening ritual is to inquire what homework requires assistance, and at the beginning of the year it was a science worksheet as part of an...

Rather than make any New Year's resolutions of my own, which I would then feel guilty about not keeping, I've decided to make one fo...

As 2013 draws to a close, I've decided to stick my neck out and make some predictions for 2014.  Perhaps I'll get lucky and a few wi...

It was very gratifying to get comments on my recent piece on a de novo assembly review from both a referee of the manuscript (the amazing H...

A review on short-read de novo genome assembly appeared recently in PLoS Computational Biology, titled " Next-Generation Sequence Assem...

So, this piece is going to be mostly asking questions.  In one of the corners of my dream world I have a scientific historian on retainer, b...

In  the movie The Spanish Prisoner , a brilliant inventor possesses a paranoia that "The Process" he has invented will be stolen ...

I haven't talked about Ion Torrent for a while, because it was largely off my radar screen.  In early 2012 the PGM had been an important...

Roche's announcement this week that they planned to shut down the 454 sequencing business in mid-2016 was not completely unexpected, as ...

One of the two big buzzes in the genomics business world was the announcement that Roche Diagnostics has signed a major deal with Pacific Bi...

Over at Homolog.us there are two detailed blog entries on Pacific Biosciences entitled "End of Short Read Era?" ( Part I  and Par...

Kendall Square used to have the ultimate geek book store, Quantum Books.  No fiction or graphic novels there; it was all technical books.  O...

LinkedIn has a feature by which one can endorse other people for different fields. Periodically the system prompts me to vote yea-or-nay on ...