Omics! Omics!

I noted in my roundup of Oxford Nanopore technical announcements that I loved the Plongle concept.  This is really both a new application-sp...

In the coverage of ONT's announcements at London Calling , I specifically left out one of Clive's Skunk Works projects.  This would ...

The annual big Clive Brown London Calling talk had a twist this year  Brown introduced a set of senior lieutenants at Oxford Nanopore and th...

The first half day of London Calling has already delivered the usual mix of scientific excitement.  The prospect of lives, particularly thos...

London Calling is this week, so get ready for lots of Oxford Nanopore in my Twitter channel and if I'm on the ball, in this space.  ONT ...

There's a paper this week in Nature announcing an E.coli genome which has had two serine codons ( UCA , UCG ) and one stop codon ( UAG...

When I announced recently that I had moved over to Ginkgo Bioworks, I was compelled to leave out an important part of that story.  Indeed, ...

When I wrote about Genapsys' pre-print on their sequencing system the other night, I intended that to be the last I wrote until some ma...

Genapsys is continuing down the path of pre-launch information, most recently releasing a pre-print .  I'm looking at this pre-print cri...

I've awakened from my blogging torpor to point out a really interesting career opportunity for the types who might read this space. Gin...

Here's a killer technological challenge for anyone: design a scheme to detect vanishingly small concentrations of a valuable analyte in ...

Many writers have attempted to divide Next Generation Sequencing into Second Generation Sequencing and Third Generation Sequencing.  Persona...

An idea for a little exploration occurred to me back at Infinity -- that is 7.5 years ago -- that I've never tried out.  But I never got...

For as long as I can remember, Covaris has been the standard in DNA shearing for high throughput short read sequencing.  Their benchtop unit...

Here's a dangerous statement for me: I actually enjoyed reading some patents recently.  Now, before you get any ideas in your head about...

Derek Lowe summarized a really cool paper back in October .  I've been meaning to grab a copy, but discovered recently that the MIT libr...

As promised in the last post, I'm segregating out Oxford Nanopore.  Admittedly I tend to cover them relatively closely -- though I never...

An astute reader caught a sentence fragment about MGI in last night's Illumina JPM roundup -- the unfortunate evidence of a a mental ba...

Illumina CEO Francis deSouza delivered his J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference talk ( webcast audio , slides & Q&A audio ) a week ago...

Next week is the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.  It's striking this year the paucity of companies in the genomics space -- Illumina ...