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A computational biologist's personal views on new technologies & publications on genomics & proteomics and their impact on drug discovery

Sunday, February 28, 2021

AGBT 2021: A Spatial Foundation

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I'll call it now -- the big buzz at this year's AGBT will be around spatial profiling.  Trust me, it's not just a hunch.  The tw...
Saturday, February 27, 2021

PacBio With SoftBank's $900M: How Might TheyWork?

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Pacific Biosciences continued its roll of successful business development, snagging $900M from Japan's SoftBank two weeks ago.  Combined...
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Friday, February 26, 2021

More Details on 10X's Sample Profiling Trident

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10X Genomics had an online event Wednesday called Xperience (as far as I could tell no Jimmy Hendrix music was used, a missed opportunity!) ...
Tuesday, February 09, 2021

Could I See Myself at J.P. Morgan?

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There's a question that others pop my way pretty much every year around J.P. Morgan: would I ever attend myself?  I'll confess it ne...
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Monday, February 08, 2021

Why I Hated One Genapsys Slide

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I claimed in my Miscellanea piece that I was one post away from being done with J.P. Morgan -- oops, forgot I had drafted a minor screed on ...
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Saturday, February 06, 2021

J.P. Morgan: Miscellania

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Before J.P. Morgan is truly a month ago I should clean up some loose ends as a penultimate post driven by this year's virtual conference...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

J.P.Morgan: NanoString

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Almost done with my J.P. Morgan summaries -- this will be the last focused on a specific company: nanoString.   They wish to emphasize that ...
Monday, January 25, 2021

J.P. Morgan: Genapsys

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Genapsys' J.P. Morgan presentation by CEO Hesaam Esfandyarpour focused on their story of delivering a compact sequencer based on electro...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

J.P. Morgan: PacBio

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PacBio CEO Christian Henry’s presentation at J.P. Morgan wasn't rich in technical specifics. But he gave a very bullish portrait of a co...
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Saturday, January 16, 2021

J.P. Morgan: 10X Genomics

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As I attempt to collate various incomplete thoughts about the J.P. Morgan presentations I have read and listened to from genomics instrument...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

JP Morgan: Illumina

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Illumina presented at J.P. Morgan on Monday, reminding us that they aren't just a sequencing instrument company but an interlocking set ...
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Monday, January 11, 2021

J.P. Morgan 2021

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The J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference has started this morning in virtual form, so I'd really better get this draft cleaned up and out ...
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Sunday, January 03, 2021

Advent of Code vs. FizzBuzz

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A bunch of coding types at the Strain Factory participated in The Advent of Code , a clever 24-day set of programming challenges that runs e...
Saturday, January 02, 2021

Peri-New Year Nanopore Playing

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Ever since the community meeting I've been toying with an idea,  then never quite trying to code it.  So on New Year's Eve I started...
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Friday, December 18, 2020

Nanopore Community Meeting: Progress Despite the Pandemic

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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...
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Sunday, December 13, 2020

BGI Floats Idea of Tape-Based Sequencer

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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...
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Monday, November 30, 2020

PacBio's Renewed Energy

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When confronted by antitrust regulators last year, the core thesis of Illumina and Pacific Biosciences was that PacBio could not survive as ...
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Thursday, November 19, 2020

Bioinformatics Exercise: Gene-Specific Ser Codon Usage

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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...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

Bionano Genomics: A Belated Update

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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...
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Monday, October 12, 2020

10X Triples Down on Spatial Analysis

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10X Genomics last week announced the purchase of ReadCoor, a company that unveiled its 3D spatial sequencing instrument back at AGBT, paying...
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Keith Robison
Dr. Robison spent 10 years at Millennium Pharmaceuticals working with various genomics & proteomics technologies & working on multiple teams attempting to apply these throughout the drug discovery process. He spent 2 years at Codon Devices working on a variety of protein & metabolic engineering projects as well as monitoring a high-throughput gene synthesis facility. After a brief bit of consulting, he rejoined the cancer drug discovery field at Infinity Pharmaceuticals in May 2009. In September 2011 he joined Warp Drive Bio, a startup applying genomics to natural product drug discovery. In February 2019 he joined Ginkgo Bioworks, a synthetic biology company. Other recurring characters in this blog are his late loyal Shih Tzu Amanda, his current Shih Poo Lily and his now adult son alias TNG (The Next Generation). Dr. Robison can be reached via his Gmail account, keith.e.robison@gmail.com You can also follow him on Twitter as @OmicsOmicsBlog.
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