Omics! Omics!

LinkedIn is a social media tool I find greatly flawed, but useful.  Part of the devil's pact one makes with LinkedIn is to receive great...

In this final installment of a series of reactions to news coming from the J.P. Morgan Conference, I'll cover an interesting complementa...

In my J P Morgan predictions for sequencing platforms , I didn't do badly.  The only major player to make a platform announcement was Il...

The J.P. Morgan Conference is firing up, and for the past few years that has meant big sequencing platform announcements -- HiSeq or Ion Pro...

I'm sorely guilty of neglecting this space, but a recent (and now storified ) Twitter conversation from Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) ...

I will confess that when our first MinION burn-in data for lambda came in & I threw a few aligners at it (after first getting my data ex...

A huge event in the genomics community this summer has been the Oxford Nanopore MinION Access Program (MAP), which has enabled a sizable but...

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...