PolITiGenomics

Politics, Information Technology, and Genomics

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..

Blogorama

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

For you RSS readers that do not visit the site, I thought I would point out a few of the blogs I have recently added to the Blogroll list on ... Read more..

My talk at AGBT

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 4 Comments »

Several people have asked me to post my slides from AGBT. Given the type of slides I prepare, I thought that might be less than useful, so I recorded my ... Read more..

SRA at AGBT

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 4 Comments »

I forgot to mention in my previous post about AGBT 2009 that Niel Das from our LIMS group will be presenting a poster about our NCBI SRA data submission pipeline ... Read more..

Next-Generation Informatics at AGBT

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 2 Comments »

AGBT 2009 will be starting in about two weeks in Marco Island, FL. The 10th annual AGBT meeting looks like it is going to be very impressive. With all ... Read more..

Hyperkaster

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in genomics | 2 Comments »

No, this post is not about the latest Fender guitar. It is about the Illumina Genome Analyzer II (or GA2), formerly known as the Hyperkaster. This latest ... Read more..

AGBT 2008, part 2

Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Well, here is another quick hit from AGBT 2008. This year there were over 550 attendees and they still had to turn away over 200 people. No doubt ... Read more..

Pacific Biosciences

Sunday, February 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

I mentioned Pacific Biosciences in my first post about AGBT 2008. A faithful reader pointed me to this article in the New York Times entitled The Race to Read ... Read more..

AGBT 2008, part 1

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

I have been meaning to write about what I saw at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting a couple weeks ago, but have not had time to ... Read more..