Omics! Omics!

In a piece on LinkedIn, Brian Krueger made a pithy comment that should give PacBio management pause.  In a series of bulletpoints he summar...

Oxford Nanopore's adaptive sequencing scheme is truly singular (but not Singular!), enabling computational adjustment of the sequencing ...

PacBio CEO Christian Henry chatted with me recently by teleconference on a variety of topics, but the focus was the recent PacBio acquisiti...

A significant challenge for the long read sequencing vendors has been that short read sequencing has a decade and a half head start in evolv...

Wednesday night brought the news that Pacific Biosciences has both officially launched their Onso desktop short read sequencer and bought te...

An amusing incident happened on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend that is a reminder that even when there are no walls the walls in the Bos...

Sunday brought news that Francis deSouza had resigned as CEO of Illumina.  It at first might have seemed he had survived the boardroom chall...

After a too long pandemic-induced hiatus, I'm in the UK for this year's edition of London Calling.  I talked myself out of going las...

Writing this piece is not easy, not only because the topic matter is completely in controversies around SARS-CoV-2 and the vaccines for it, ...

At AGBT last week Illumina released additional details on their still incubating Complete Long Reads (CLR) product (formerly known as Infini...

AGBT begins in less than 24 hours, and the signs are everywhere here at the Diplomat Resort in Hollywood Florida.  I arrived Friday with fam...

AGBT is less than a week away in Hollywood Florida - and I've been letting everything else get ahead of writing anything here.  The JP M...

PacBio has been rolling out announcements around the ASHG meeting and now delivers a huge one: the next generation SMRT instrument “Revio” w...

Periodically in my work or during writing this blog I come across computational problems that have the aspects of making, at least in my min...

A week ago, a company calling itself General Inception emerged from stealth as a new concept, which they call an “Igniter company”, to promo...

The Only Thing Clear About Infinity Is It Is Now Complete Long Reads.  Illumina told us a new name for Infinity -- Illumina Complete Long Re...

A couple of weeks ago  I sat down for coffee with a pair of MGI representatives - American Region CEO Yongwei Zhang and Director, Global Bus...