PolITiGenomics

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..

Easy racism

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | 2 Comments »

Well President Obama and I now have something in common: we have both been accused of being racist against white people. President Obama by Glenn "'President Obama has a deep-seated hatred ... Read more..

The evil that scientists do

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

By now it is well know that scientists are horrible people. It is clear from reports like that found last month in PLoS ONE that all scientists (OK, well more ... Read more..

1000 Genomes phase change

Thursday, May 21st, 2009 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »

The 1000 Genomes Project is transitioning from its pilot phase into the full project. Since 1000 Genomes is a mixture of data production centers and not a pure component, the ... Read more..

Paul Flicek’s a Mac

Monday, May 18th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

Paul may kill me for posting this, but I'll assume he allowed himself to be recorded and the video posted because he wanted people to see it. Enjoy. 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..

GIA Talk

Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

Last week was the first Genome Informatics Alliance meeting. It was a meeting of second-generation sequence vendors, users, data repositories, and other high-throughput endeavors, e.g., high-energy physics and Google, to ... Read more..

File formats aplenty

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

In a previous post on the 1000 Genomes Project, David Sexton from the Center for Human Genetics Research at Vanderbilt University asked about the new file formats for alignments, assembly, ... 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..

What’s in an SRF?

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

I have written a bit about the NCBI Short Read Archive (SRA), its internals, and data transfer rates. Here is some information about the data format people are using to ... Read more..