Omics! Omics!

It's Halloween, and as i s my habit I fired up  Saint-Saëns , As death tunes up his violin in a graveyard, the dead residents live again...

This weekend brought the formal launch of the BGISEQ-500 desktop sequencing instrument from BGI (though deliveries won't begin until ea...

Last week's release of the MARC data for the Oxford Nanopore MinION rebooted a train of thought I've had around DNA samples used as...

Back in March I covered the unveiling of Dovetail Genomics' approach to scaffolding genomes  via deriving long distance constraints fro...

Last week's end brought the initial report from MARC , the MinION Analysis and Reference Consortium, detailing a body of experiments int...

Boy, am I regretting taking a vacation from online due to being engrossed in A Canticle for Leibowitz.  Between last night and this morning,...

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...