Omics! Omics!

Fellow blogger, colleague and science history buff Ash pointed out to me recently that Randy Shilt 's And The Band Played On  for Kindl...

Yes, this is a solicitation.  I'm on the Editorial Board of the journal Briefings in Bioinformatics ,.  I'm looking for authors who ...

I've used cloud computing at Amazon Web Services (AWS) off-and-on now for over five years.  The cloud has all sorts of handy advantages ...

I ask a bit of indulgence from my regular readership for this piece, as I am going to explain a number of things in depth that probably will...

[18 March 2016 -- my original inclusion of the Pac Bio marketing image 6 years ago was claimed to be a DCMA violation -- I've simply rem...

Okay, there's a scheme for a crazy big genomics project has bitten me, infecting my brain.  It's definitely not something I'm in...

Along with the " No thanks, I've already got one " online session, the other big Oxford Nanopore news is the public release of...

Oxford Nanopore today hosted a Google hangout titled " No thanks, I've already got one ".  Only this morning did it occur to...

Illumina's and University of Washington's filing of a patent lawsuit and related trade complaint against Oxford Nanopore made big ...

Perhaps the most unusual new technology to be unveiled at AGBT16 is NanoString's new approach to sequencing, which is in very early st...

AGBT16 ended a week ago, but for various reasons I'm just now catching up on my Storify project.  A vacation was in there but also so...

10X Genomics launched  their approach to obtaining long-range genomic information last year with a big financing and some exciting prelimina...

I spent a bunch of time yesterday going through the Tweets from AGBT.  For me personally it is a useful exercise, plus I'll have it as a...

Just finished my last Storify for tonight from AGBT16, and boy am I wondering how sustainable this will be.  The "problem", which ...

AGBT16  starts this today but I'm again not there. The usual complex set of personal constraints (or imagined ones) kept my hat out of ...

An interesting conversation on Twitter on means for purifying DNA for PacBio and the risks of phenol-chloroform extractions restarted some...

TNG has biology this term, so I will be (at erratic intervals, of course) sometimes venturing my thoughts on the teaching of that specific s...

I was recently experimenting with C. Titus Brown and company's khmer package and hit an interesting little snag.  First, I had my usual...

This morning, Illumina announced a Scientific Challenge program as part of the launch of the MiniSeq sequencing instrument.  Three prizes ...

Illumina third big announcement around JPM is to unveil Project Firefly , a semiconductor sequencer which will use existing SBS library prep...