Omics! Omics!

As mentioned previously, by wonderful luck I now have regular contact with Ash from the Curious Wavefunction , and he has stimulated a new b...

I'm generally a big fan of Wikipedia and use it often for background research.  I've gotten more active this year in editing it, par...

Through a happy series of professional events, I now get to have lunch very regularly with the author of the excellent blog The Curious Wave...

10X Genomics had a lot of buzz at AGBT over their approach to acquiring long range information for complex genomes via a microfluidic-assi...

My ABGT teleconference-based pieces all had a theme of library preparation.  Library prep has never been as flashy as instrument performan...

Last night was the season five finale of the Gold Rush , which I confess is one of the few television programs that I have been watching rou...

I've been asked several times recently about rumors coming out from BGI.  They've started claiming they have a super sequencer whic...

Rounding out my remote coverage of platform news from AGBT, the Ion Torrent team also lent me some of their time (and at risk of sounding ob...

Perhaps the heavily anticipated launch at AGBT this year is the library prep instrument for 10X Genomics.  This Bay Area startup made a hug...

The 2015 AGBT conference started out today.  A few hardware makers have let me chat by phone with members of their team, since they're t...

In my AGBT 2015 Preview / Speculation at one point had a tightly packed (and overly long) paragraph on Ion Torrent, but I realized that this...

The annual genomics party on Gulf of Mexico beaches named AGBT runs next week, and already there have been some speculations flying.  I...

As you may have heard, we’ve had a bit of snow in the Boston area recently.  Two storms, one the beginning of last week and one which just ...

Lex Nederbragt flagged, via Twitter, a preprint on the F1000 site with a questionable table comparing sequencing systems.  Alas, once I loo...

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...