Omics! Omics!

This month I again entered the prime of my life, though next year my programming brother points out that next year I (and the first Apollo m...

When I was in George Church's lab, he submitted a grant proposal (which, alas, was not funded) for a sequencing factory to generate one ...

Back in January, at the end of my post on Illumina's new machine lineup I speculated whether Illumina might see a niche for a lower co...

The second, and final, day of Oxford Nanopore's London Calling conference concluded last Friday -- and I'm behind on writing it up. ...

Oxford Nanopore's London Calling conference kicked off today; I've Storified a large collection of Tweets from it , covering today ...

Oxford Nanopore's London Calling confab starts up in a matter of hours.  Alas, several issues scotched my plans to attend (not only doe...

Pacific Biosciences had a string of announcements around its earnings release last week.  Of particular interest is a collaboration with Rai...

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 ...