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Archive for February, 2008

Having it both ways

Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Recently we have seen a lot of attacks on Sen. Obama from both Sen. Clinton's campaign and the Republicans. Individually they each seem pretty innocuous, particularly because they rely ... Read more..

AGBT 2008, part 2

Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Well, here is another quick hit from AGBT 2008. This year there were over 550 attendees and they still had to turn away over 200 people. No doubt ... Read more..

More corn

Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The draft sequenced of the maize genome was officially announced today. Here is some other coverage. Read more..

Your people call it corn

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 4 Comments »

Later this week, we will announce the completion of the maize genome draft sequence (for the more aural-oriented crowd, an radio story featuring Rick Wilson should be posted here soon). ... Read more..

Lessig not running for Congress

Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in IT, politics | No Comments »

As previously reported, Lawrence Lessig was considering a run for Congress. Turns out he decided not to run, having decided it would not help his Change Congress movement. ... Read more..

Genomic privacy

Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

There is a recent story in the New York Times entitled Insurance Fears Lead Many to Shun DNA Tests about how people are paying for their own genetic tests to ... Read more..

Pacific Biosciences

Sunday, February 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

I mentioned Pacific Biosciences in my first post about AGBT 2008. A faithful reader pointed me to this article in the New York Times entitled The Race to Read ... Read more..

The Genome Age or, A Young Genomicist’s Illustrated Primer

Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »

If you are interested in learning more about the next-generation sequencing technologies, i.e., 454, Solexa (Illumina), and AB SOLiD, you can get a quick overview from a recent article by ... Read more..

AGBT 2008, part 1

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

I have been meaning to write about what I saw at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting a couple weeks ago, but have not had time to ... Read more..

Public campaign funding

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Sen. Obama should stick by his pledge to use public funding for the general election if Sen. McCain does the same on the Republican side. He is right, however, to ... Read more..