Omics! Omics!

As the year closes out for me (as I write this, it may well have closed out for some of you!) I'm reflecting on some anniversaries that ...

Oxford Nanopore held their annual Community Meeting online at the beginning of this month.  As is typical for this stage of the ONT news cyc...

PacBio has made its reputation delivering very high accuracy long reads, which they have branded HiFi. These are based on their circular con...

I was on vacation early this week when the news broke that PacBio has acquired HMW DNA solid phase extraction kit maker Circulomics -- the k...

Pacific Biosciences announced today that they are slurping up short read sequencer startup Omniome for around $800M.  Omniome has been devel...

Some sort of summary of London Calling in this space is grossly overdue after getting caught by multiple work firedrills and then several re...

I proposed last year that there should be a regular racing event for human genomics.  The only real competitor in is this interesting race ...

Yesterday was Matt Meselson's 91st birthday.  I have only met him a few times and he wouldn't know me from Adam, but he is a particu...

The title really says it -- London Calling has actually already begun and here I am pretending to write a "before the conference" ...

The GISAID database has been the workhorse for storing and distributing SARS-CoV-2 sequences during the COVID-19 pandemic and recently passe...

More spatial profiling news coming in from AGBT -- Harvard spin-out VizGen is launching in the U.S. an instrument implementing MERFISH techn...

Rant is ON!   I've been having an utterly miserable experience with the LabRoots conference software that AGBT is using for their virtua...

My prediction that spatial would be a hot topic at AGBT was easy to make knowing I was sitting on embargoed news in the spatial space.  This...

Getting some miscellanea out before AGBT21 starts later this morning

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...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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...