Omics! Omics!

I like to pretend in this space that I catch all the little details of the different sequencing platforms.  Well, at least over time I try t...

I've been programming 90+% in Python now for over a year and a half -- when I joined the Strain Factory I vowed to finally make the brea...

I will offer here two bioinformatics programming problems which I think are interesting, useful and should be approachable by an advanced un...

Last time, I covered Oxford Nanopore LamPORE COVID-19 detection scheme .  London Calling was over a week ago, so the chance to scribble befo...

London Calling was last week, held online due to the pandemic.  My plans to attend in person were one of a myriad of travel arrangements upe...

Ugh.  I let the month of April slip away without writing and now have almost let May do the same.  But some leftover euphoria from a huge ex...

One of most truly useless pieces of information lodged in my brain is my zodiac sign; not once in my life have I had any interest in it.  Bu...

My piece on the near amnesia in U.S. culture of the 1918-19 Influenza pandemic provoked a number of helpful comments, emails and conversati...

This past fall there was a rumor that QIAGEN was being pursued by an acquirer, with the initial tip being scientific conglomerate ThermoFish...

AGBT ended over a week ago and I've been procrastinating ever since in going through notes and writing up companies.  First few days I h...

The still growing COVID-19 pandemic has reminded me of a question I've batted in my head a few times.  In 1918 and 1919 a global influen...

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 ...