PolITiGenomics

Archive for October, 2009

What’s in an Illumina GA run directory?

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

One of the main things that differentiates genomics from other endeavors that use a lot of disk space is that genomics file systems tend to have a lot of files ... Read more..

State of cancer genome sequencing

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The Genome Center's Elaine Mardis and Rick Wilson have just published a review article on cancer genome sequencing. The article focuses on the application of next-generation sequencing technologies to the ... Read more..

Party with a Purpose 2009

Monday, October 26th, 2009 Posted in charity | No Comments »

The Young Professionals Board of the St. Louis Crisis Nursery is hosting it's second annual Party with a Purpose on Thursday November 12, 2009. The event is once again ... Read more..

More than cells, more than bytes

Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 4 Comments »

In a recent New York Times article, Jimmy Lin from of the University of Maryland is quoted as saying, "Science these days has basically turned into a data-management problem." If ... Read more..

Virus Invasion

Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in genomics | 2 Comments »

Not entirely relevant, but I thought this animation of a how a virus invades your cells and multiplies is entertaining, if not all that informative. Read more..

What ELSI is New?

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

My contribution to the Genomics Law Report's What ELSI is New? series appears today, Personalized medicine, leave U.S. behind. The piece discusses the challenges our current health care system presents ... Read more..

Collins vs. Colbert

Monday, October 5th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

Francis Collins, Director of NIH, was on The Colbert Report last Thursday. Colbert did not give him much time to speak, but he did get to take his glasses off ... Read more..

Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics table update

Monday, October 5th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 2 Comments »

I have made some updates to the Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics table. Specifically, I have updated the numbers for 454 Ti, including paired-end information, and added information on the Illumina GA ... Read more..

Expansion

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in IT | No Comments »

The Genome Data Center has received a Gold LEED Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. This is in addition to the Keystone Award from the St. Louis Association of ... Read more..

Breakin’ 3: Genomic Variations

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

In the long awaited follow up to Breakin' and Breakin' 2, Ken Chen has released BreakDancer. As described in his Nature Methods article and a recent Genome Technology article, BreakDancer ... Read more..