Omics! Omics!

There's an interesting new preprint from Jay Shendure's lab which introduces the technique of Shred-Seq, which is a Cas3-driven app...

Last week brought news that Standard Biotools, which is what Fluidigm morphed into, is being acquired by Treeline Biosciences, a drug develo...

Alexander Hoischen and colleagues have a brief piece in New England Journal of Medicine that published early this morning , in conjunction w...

The last bit of Craig Venter's career a followed, often a bit green with envy, was his work to build genomes.  This all revolved around ...

Few bombshells have hit genomics like the day in May 1998 when Craig Venter and Applied Biosystems announced he would be launching Celera Ge...

In the early 1990s, Craig Venter left the NIH over disputes around the patenting of ESTs.  Investors backed him, but then William Haseltine ...

I am overdue in getting back to my very personal review of how the recently passed J. Craig Venter made a huge impact on genomics science.  ...

The Festival of Genomics, Biodata and AI - thankfully known as FoG and not FogBA or FogBDA - will be at the Boston convention center this W...

Now to run through the long term technical projections from Oxford Nanopore's Tech Talk.  Well, projection is probably not the correct w...

I returned from London Calling 2026 much as I usually have - exhausted, more than a little hoarse, happy for discussions had and ruing conne...

My series on Craig Venter is on a small pause since I didn't get it out before I arrived here in London for Oxford Nanopore's annual...

Venter's big Expressed Sequence Tag - soon known as ESTs -  paper came out in June during my final summer as an intern; I photocopied it...

Craig Venter's sudden passing has triggered many writings about his life and work.  I'm overdue on my own personal reflections, and ...

Another edition of my dabbling with AI.  Somewhat like what I reported before - a customer asked if Ginkgo Cloud Lab's Echo-MS option ...

Vibe coding - solving problems by extended conversation with a machine learning program rather than writing the code yourself - is all the r...

The liquid biopsy space continues to grow and heat up - just this week Roche's Foundation Medicine unit announced the acquisition of Min...

AGBT Agriculture was a really nice meeting - lovely venue in the Arizona desert, a meeting size that you felt you could (but weren't com...

I'm headed over to AGBT Agriculture tomorrow, after getting to Phoenix ahead of time to check out some sights.  The Desert Botanical Gar...

About a year ago we took a family vacation to the Netherlands with a prime goal to see tulips - and tulips we did see!  Even a rainy day (wh...

I've loved the n6tec icon96 instrument since they first tipped me about it several years back.  The idea of running 96 independent PCRs ...