Omics! Omics!

Last week, I attended a free public talk at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) here in Boston.  This is a wonderful p...

Almost five years ago, I wrote of voluntarily leaving Infinity Pharmaceuticals .  Particularly due to the novelty (for me) of the voluntary ...

For the past few decades, since the early stirrings that led to the Human Genome Project, technology for reading DNA has gotten immense inve...

London Calling was two weeks ago, and I still haven't written anything beyond the write-up of Clive Brown's talk (note that many ...

I'm behind on writing up London Calling.  I can partly blame a failing computer -- though rebooting it seems to have righted it for the ...

ON Thursday and Friday this week Oxford Nanopore will be holding their second annual London Calling meeting.  I successfully defended my sch...

If you order chemicals, then the supplier provides a certificate of analysis, which shows the amounts of impurities or their limit of detect...

The Sunday Boston Globe today had a front page piece by STAT's Sharon Begley that asks some challenging questions about prioritization ...

Earlier this week, the current big Boston-area mass construction transit project, known as GLX, went through a near-death experience.  The p...

My finely tuned skills in the art of procrastination KOed my plans to see Siddhartha Mukerjee's talk tonight at a local bookstore (appar...

This post is pure whimsy, growing out of killing time on a train ride. The not-so-serious question: what is the geography of amino acids?  I...

Nanopore sequencing developer Genia published in PNAS last week a study demonstrating the basics of their current approach to sequencing.  ...

I wrote a piece earlier this year suggesting that introductory Biology textbooks should emphasize protein complexes more .  My basis for ass...

Friday's New York Times carried a front-page illustration of the current status of the Aedes aegyptii genome, accompanying an Amy Harm...

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...