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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..

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..

Life finds a way

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in genomics | 7 Comments »

Earlier this week Life Technologies announced the next revision of their SOLiD platform, SOLiD 4. I don't have all the details that I had for the Illumina HiSeq 2000, but ... Read more..

HiSeq 2000

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | 9 Comments »

Today Illumina announced their new, high-throughput sequencing instrument, the HiSeq 2000. Sure, the name isn't that great, but the capabilities, if not game changing, are a significant step forward: the ... Read more..

Bioinformatics and cloud computing

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 9 Comments »

From the Using clouds for parallel computations in systems biology workshop at the recent SC09 conference (Informatics Iron writeup) to last month's Genome Informatics meeting, everyone in bioinformatics is talking ... Read more..

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..

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..

My secret past

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

Now everyone will know about my secret past before I joined The Genome Center: David Dooling: Gangbusters at the Genome Center. Bio-IT World also has a nice interview with Clive ... Read more..

Sour grapes

Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | 7 Comments »

Well, the US is not the only place with interesting politics. I recently came across this letter from Kevin McKernan, Senior Director of Scientific Operations at Applied Biosystems/Life Technologies, to ... Read more..

Second whole cancer genome published

Thursday, August 6th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »

Today in the New England Journal of Medicine the second paper detailing the whole genome sequencing of a tumor and its matched normal was published: Recurring Mutations Found by Sequencing ... Read more..