PolITiGenomics

The central dogma of cancer genomics

Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Today, Chris Sander, head of the Computational Biology Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), gave a talk at The Genome Center. His group at MSKCC performs a wide ... Read more..

Towards a cure for cancer

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in genomics | 6 Comments »

Recently, The Genome Center's Dr. Elaine Mardis gave a talk at the Cold Spring Harbor's Personal Genomes meeting. The topic of the talk was the ever increasing efforts of the ... Read more..

TCGA project finds link between methylation and patient outcome

Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Researcher from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center recently presented some of their findings from The Cancer Genome Atlas at the American Association for Cancer Research Molecular ... Read more..

The Cancer Genome Atlas

Thursday, September 4th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network has published its first paper, Comprehensive genomic characterization defines human glioblastoma genes and core pathways. This paper reports several novel mutations in brain cancer ... Read more..

War on cancer

Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

There was an article in US News and World Report calling for a new war on cancer. A couple of the more far out comments on the article confirms my ... Read more..

Francis Collins stepping down

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

Francis Collins is stepping down as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) effective August 1, 2008. He's had a heck of a run, from overseeing the ... Read more..

Sequencing genomes almost as a matter of course

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | 4 Comments »

Here is an article on genome sequencing, specifically using next-generation sequencers, for which I was interviewed. The article appeared in St. Louis Commerce Magazine so it is a bit ... Read more..

You’ve got a plumbing problem

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Last week I attended the TCGA Data Portal Use Case Workshop. TCGA stands for The Cancer Genome Atlas and is an ambitious project to more fully characterize and understand ... Read more..