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Archive for April, 2009

AAAS Fellows in our midst

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

It somehow escaped my attention last November when it was announced and earlier this year in February when the ceremony was held that Richard K. Wilson and George M. Weinstock, ... Read more..

Sequencing AML with paired-end reads

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

When The Genome Center performed the sequencing of the first whole cancer genome, the state of the art for next-generation sequencing was single-end, or fragment, reads. While these data allowed ... Read more..

CSHL Biology of Genomes 2009

Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 3 Comments »

I should have posted this earlier, but things have been pretty busy. In any event, I will be presenting a poster next week at the Biology of Genomes meeting at ... Read more..

Sequencing — the past, present, and future

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Science Magazine has a nice article, Sanger Who? Sequencing the Next Generation, describing past sequencing technology, the current "next-generation" sequencing instruments and their capabilities, and several of the companies working ... Read more..

OSCON 2009

Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 2 Comments »

I will be speaking at OSCON 2009 in San Jose, CA. My talk, entitled The Freedom to Cure Cancer: Open Source Software in Genomics, will be at 10:45 a.m. PDT ... Read more..

Outside looking in

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Predictably, the roles of the political pundits have changed since January 20th. Those who called people who questioned the president "un-American" only four months ago, are now questioning the president ... Read more..

Weather != climate

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 Posted in politics | No Comments »

It's April in St. Louis, so it snowed yesterday. Moving around town one heard people comment on how silly the concept of "global warming" is when it snows in April. ... Read more..

It was fun while it lasted

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

Ross King, a computer scientist and biologist at Aberystwyth University, has created a robot that can develop and test scientific hypotheses. Specifically, it was given information about the yeast genome ... Read more..

The ls in lsgmake-gap

Friday, April 3rd, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

I have released a new version of lsgmake-gap, 0.13 (md5). This version puts the "ls" back in lsgmake-gap by adding the --bsub-options command-line option which allows the user to specify ... Read more..

Rick Wilson — star maker

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

There is an interview with Rick Wilson on GenomeWeb, Launch Pad for Rising Stars, that discusses his role in the birth of genome sequencing, what he looks for in a ... Read more..