Omics! Omics!

A new paper on using Hi-C sequencing appeared in Science recently, demonstrating the generation of chromosome-length scaffolds for human as ...

I've been contemplating this post for a while, but it can be seen as another angle on my recent post on the challenges of drug discovery...

My correspondent @datarade shot a tweet my way on his quest to understand drug discovery. He does this despite the fact I've promised po...

Pacific Biosciences has made new thrusts in their ongoing intellectual property action against Oxford Nanopore, adding two recently issued ...

The advent of so-called next generation sequencers, particularly those from Illumina, have brought the price of sequence data down dramatica...

Clive Brown gave a webcast today with updates on a number of Oxford Nanopore topics, but clearly the flagship announcement was a new instrum...

Last week I posted a piece  on some amazing new nanopore data, only to be red-faced to discover the next morning that I had misread the a...

Oxford Nanopore and its collaborators have shown at least three interesting advances in the last few months which I haven't yet covered;...

There's been a bit of buzz recently about an unfunded proposal to ultimately sequence every living species on Earth, warming up by seque...

I've used my scheme for collecting and organizing tweets to capture most of the feed from this week's AGBT17 conference.  I still ne...

Obtaining a complete genome sequence for a bacterium or archean is essentially a solved problem, if you can culture the bug.  Grow up biomas...

A bit of a foray into Oxford Nanopore land again.  By replacing a bench bumbler with someone competent, we've seen some success with o...

At the 2015 AGBT meeting, Illumina launched the NeoPrep , a ~$40K instrument to automate the preparation of up to 16 sequencing libraries at...

I'll spend two hours in project meetings tomorrow. Around the table will be a group of scientists who are all at the top of the game and...

TULIP is a new assembler for long, error-rich reads such as from nanopore. I was a bit stunned to see that TULIP is written in Perl; I was ...

I've been remiss in writing up a piece on 10X Genomics based on a phone discussion last week with Michael Schnall-Levin (VP Computationa...

Earlier this week one of my colleagues had gotten a somewhat ominous email  from the CEO of Gen9 titled "Special Gen9 Announcement...

Monday evening brought news that Bio-Rad has further consolidated its grip on the droplet microfluidics space by acquiring RainDance Technol...

At today's J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference Illumina made a number of small announcements -- some new partnerships, Firefly on track fo...

I'm good at acquiring distractions, and a relatively new one is Quora.  This site allows users to ask questions which are then answered ...