Omics! Omics!

At some fancy restaurants one can get a "deconstructed dish".  As I understand it, as I don't frequent such restaurants, a dec...

Having s ummarized MGI's announcement they are launching into the U.S. market this spring and started digging into the performance char...

Friday morning I got excited because a p reprint showed up at BioRxiv detailing the CoolMPS sequencing technology from MGI (aka BGI aka Com...

AGBT looms ahead of me next week which serves as impetus to let fly an idea I've had simmering for a while: to look at sequencing startu...

My last post discussed BioJulia in the face of a challenge from the new Seq programming language.  Tonight I'm going to take a bit more ...

There's a blog post on BioJulia.net that is well worth reading, even if you don't use Julia or I'd argue if you don't actual...

My qPCR explainer seems to have done relatively well, though it took some refinement after readers caught a number of errors.  The most emba...

I've gotten in a number of Twitter threads and seen a lot of Quora questions about the qPCR test for the Wuhan coronavirus that I realiz...

A notion dawned on me when I was mentally planning my write-up of the Nanopore Community Meetin g, but I decided to put off fleshing it out ...

Homopolymeric sequences have never been easy for any sequencing platform, but single molecule sequencers struggle the most with this.  Oxfor...

I've made a few references recently to TELL-Seq, both in my flawed analysis of BioNano Genomics (I missed a key business development in...

When playing with the structure of this piece in my mind, it occurred to me that Norman Maclean's thoughts about fly fishing apply just...

Once in a while I get the thrill of someone sending me a really good tip - that surge that comes with knowing that I know something that mos...

10X Genomics original product was a kit for generating linked reads from genomic DNA.  The idea had been kicking around for a while, partiti...

Time to close out  J.P. Morgan season with a grab bag of kvetches and kibbitzing on multiple 'omics companies that presented.  Much of t...

Genapsys' CEO  Hesaam Esfandyarpour   presented today at the JPM Morgan Conference and delivered an expansive vision of where the compa...

Another bit of Illumina news released at J.P. Morgan today is that Roche Diagnostics is partnering with Illumina.   The 15 year partnership ...

Illumina presented this morning at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference ( presentation , slides & breakout ).  For us sequencing geeks...

According to both the FTC and CMA, Illumina holds a nearly complete monopoly on the sequencing market, with other players (Ion Torrent, Oxfo...

I've had some people asking, either privately or via Twitter, what might come from Illumina next week at JP Morgan (8:30 am PST on Monda...