Omics! Omics!

A bit over a week ago brought news that mapping instrument hopeful Nabsys had ceased operations.  As a veteran of one failed biotech, I have...

I have a long standing interest in biology education -- I seriously considered it as at least a career to explore -- but now I really have s...

Keith Bradnam reported a huge influx of traffic for a recent post -- not surprising, since he labeled it NSFW (Not Safe For WorK).  And yes...

The Ion Torrent team rolled out a new sequencer line this morning, the S5.  The S5, whose impending release had been tipped on the internet ...

If you really want to raise a bioinformaticist's blood pressure, loudly declare your new tool generates output in brand new data formats...

A number of efforts in the consumer genomics space have been attempted in the past, with 23andMe appearing to make limited headway and Knome...

When I set out to start this blog nearly over eight years ago, I set myself a number of goals.  One goal was to take some risks -- not crazy...

Update: Some significant issues with the tone of this post are discussed in a follow-up . I am a firm believer that the practice of scienc...

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...