PolITiGenomics

Archive for February, 2010

Me, in podcast form

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

I recently did an interview in advance of my talk at the XGen Congress next month in San Diego. The interview is about 14 minutes and discusses our work at ... Read more..

The Pac’s out of the bag

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Most of you have probably already seen this, but Pacific Biosciences announced the institutions that will be getting their first ten prototype instruments (Bio-IT World, GenomeWeb, MarketWatch). The Genome Center ... Read more..

Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics Update

Friday, February 19th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | 6 Comments »

I updated the Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics table a few weeks ago but forgot to mention it on the blog. The main update was the 50G configuration of the Illumina GA ... Read more..

Puff piece

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

Why should one be skeptical of all the information touting the wonders of cloud computing? This older, in-depth piece by Gartner, Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2009, lays out the ... Read more..

In case you missed second grade

Monday, February 15th, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Speaking of global climate change and snowstorms, NPR has a story this morning about how a lot of snow in Washington, DC does not contradict the theory of global climate ... Read more..

Seeing double

Friday, February 12th, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

It seems there is a shortage of news satire ideas. Two days ago, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report each had similar pieces on global climate change. The Daily Show ... Read more..

Seq-o-matic ’76

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Soon after Illumina announced its HiSeq 2000, it also announced the GA IIx's little brother, the GA IIe. The IIe will produce about half as much data as the IIx, ... Read more..

Fair Elections Now Act

Monday, February 1st, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Please consider writing your representatives in Congress to support the Fair Elections Now Act (S. 752 and H.R. 1286); a bill that will greatly limit the damage done by the ... Read more..