PolITiGenomics

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..

Sequencing — the past, present, and future

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Science Magazine has a nice article, Sanger Who? Sequencing the Next Generation, describing past sequencing technology, the current "next-generation" sequencing instruments and their capabilities, and several of the companies working ... Read more..

Personal genomics will shape the next decade

Saturday, January 10th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »

According to Forbes, personal genomics will be one of the five technologies that will shape the next decade. They predict (not too boldly) that personal genome sequencing will become widely ... Read more..

Elaine Mardis on Cancer in Technology Review

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Elaine Mardis, Co-Director of The Genome Center has a brief article in the January/February 2009 issue of Technology Review discussing the application of next-generation sequencing technologies to cancer research entitled ... 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..