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Archive for December, 2008

We made Parade

Sunday, December 28th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 4 Comments »

Our sequencing of the first cancer genome made Parade Magazine's Breakthroughs Of The Year. I guess we have really made it. Read more..

CC bioinformatics

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

Thanks to the beauty of Creative Commons, the folks over at CLC bio have posted a version of my next-generation sequencing informatics table that adds a new metric, Yield per ... Read more..

Elaine Mardis on Cancer in Technology Review

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Elaine Mardis, Co-Director of The Genome Center has a brief article in the January/February 2009 issue of Technology Review discussing the application of next-generation sequencing technologies to cancer research entitled ... Read more..

1000 Genome SNPs released

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The 1000 Genomes Project has announced its initial release of SNP data from four of the individuals sequenced to high depth-of-coverage as part of the second pilot project (trios). ... Read more..

Letting kids be kids

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 Posted in charity | No Comments »

There is a good article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the St. Louis Crisis Nursery entitled St. Louis Crisis Nursery helps kids, parents. This holiday season, the Crisis Nursery ... Read more..

AML at ASH

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

It seems the publication of the first whole cancer genome sequence is getting a good reception in hematology circles. This past Saturday at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American ... Read more..

Using the next-generation sequencing statistics table

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

Since posting the next-generation sequencing informatics statistics table I have received several requests asking if they could reproduce the table in one format or another. The answer is yes, as ... Read more..

Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT |

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog has an entry on using Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to host and access public data sets, including Ensembl release 51. The data are ...

Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics

Thursday, December 4th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | 4 Comments »

I have put together a table with a bunch of important metrics for the major next-generation sequencing platforms: Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics (there is also a link on the left-hand side ... Read more..

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Posted in politics |

In recent years, the term "bully pulpit" has erroneously become conflated with the modern meaning of the word bully, someone who harasses or intimidates. As such, people see the term ...