PolITiGenomics

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..

Another rich white guy sequences own genome

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 4 Comments »

Following in the dubious footsteps of J. Craig Venter, Stephen Quake has sequenced his own genome using a technology he helped develop which was commercialized by a company he helped ... Read more..

In the dark

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Recently, my colleague posted a write-up of the recent Helicos publication in Science on their sequencing of the M13 virus genome. I've mentioned Helicos before, but have not really ... Read more..

UHTS data exchange

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 2 Comments »

I am returning from a meeting on ultra-high throughput sequence (UHTS) data exchange. I know what you are thinking, "That sounds like an exciting two days!" UHTS (or ... Read more..