Omics! Omics!

I realized a few Oxford Nanopore announcements too late that I should have tried to log all their predictions with a date made so I could tr...

I reported on the AGBT 2020 final talk a few centuries ago -- or at least it seems like that given how quickly the world went to hell just a...

When confronted by antitrust regulators last year, the core thesis of Illumina and Pacific Biosciences was that PacBio could not survive as ...

I saw a provocative abstract  in PNAS about the usage of serine codons in E.coli that triggered the "this could make an interesting stu...

Back before I can remember -- as in January of this year -- I wrote a piece on the challenging situation of BioNano Genomics.  I got an impo...

10X Genomics last week announced the purchase of ReadCoor, a company that unveiled its 3D spatial sequencing instrument back at AGBT, paying...

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...