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The last line of Perl has been written, the last SQL select executed. As 2015 draws to a close, I want to extend a thank you to everyone who...

I owe a belated thank you to everyone who responded to my post on my muddled thinking around phylogenetic tree bootstrap values .  I think I...

Before 2015 ends, I'd like to tie up two loose threads.  In doing so, I'll deviate slightly from my usual pattern and publish two p...

Neal Stephenson's Seveneves is a sprawling space novel of truly epic ambition and scope, which I enjoyed thoroughly.  I'm not going...

Peripatetic blogger Dale Yuzuki posed a question on my last piece which I'll answer with a separate post because it crystallizes for m...

I spent the end of last week at the New York Genome Center for Oxford Nanopore's MinION Community Meeting 2015.  Since the family joined...

Okay, one of the points of this space has always been to crowdsource the project of educating myself, which also means on of the underlying ...

BGI news today  is that they are jettisoning the Revolocity large sequencing system , announced all the way back in June.  Along with the p...

Miserable day today  - spent my entire day wrestling with bad formats and flaky tools and trying to bull my way past them, leading to many a...

Mihai Pop and Steven Salzberg have a n opinion piece in BMC Bioinformatics titled "Use and mis-use of supplementary material in science...

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 ...