Omics! Omics!

Due to the usual time conflicts, I've only watched bits-and-pieces of the Winter Olympics from South Korea. Which is unfortunate, as I d...

AGBT officially ended on Thursday night with a space-themed party, but I have a bunch of notes from interviews with company representatives ...

AS AGBT opened, optical mapping company BioNano Genomics announced a new scheme for labeling genomic DNA inputs which substantially improve...

Twist Biosciences today launched a new product into the sequence capture space.  CEO Emily Leproust was presenting to the Gold Sponsor work...

I spent breakfast with 10X Genomic's Michael Schnall-Levin and two of his 10X colleagues gave me a sneak peak at three new single cell p...

Today at AGBT is light on the science talks; the afternoon is free for lazing around the resort complex -- or for swimming laps in the lazy...

All sorts of scheduling snafus have kept me away the past three years. So this time around, I vowed to go and made sure my calendar staye...

After I post something, there's almost always something I realize I left out.  In my piece on Clive Brown's webcast of ONT improvem...

Clive Brown's webcasts are always entertaining, and even the 6am Eastern Time start for Thursday's didn't hinder that aspect -- ...

I'm behind on these posts.  My usual foibles were largely responsible for a while, but then I had the major (and sad) family issue that...

I had hoped to mark my father's 93rd birthday today in my usual way, a call home to exchange well wishes and update him on our goings-on...

Well, I didn't exactly get my Pacific Biosciences preview out before their J.P. Morgan presentation .  Luckily, the slides for that prim...

Illumina CEO Francis deSouza's J.P. Morgan Presentation did not disappoint.  While humdrum financials and touting market dominance and a...

In my prior installment I looked at Firefly, now clearly a working instrument.  Now I'll take a peak at the rest of the Illumina fleet. ...

Time to start gazing into my cloudy liquid crystal ball and attempt to see what will happen in the sequencing world in 2018.  J.P. Morgan is...

A new year beckons and with it a burst of enthusiasm for writing.  Which also means combing through post ideas from last year that never qui...

The 2017 Nanopore Community Meeting was over a week ago back in New York City, so I'm grossly overdue in cobbling together some observat...

I've been spending some time lately in an unfamiliar world: the eukaryotic section of NCBI's NR protein database.  I've been alm...

Apple launched the Macintosh computer with a famous television ad playing on the launch year, 1984. What emerged was what we now know as the...

Sometimes polony-style short read sequencing seems like old news.  The underlying technology has been commercially available for over a deca...