AM: Of 16 indivs w/var: T2D 7x increased risk #AGBT15

8:03pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

AM:PPAR-gamma from 20K T2D cases/controls: 2014 PNAS ref http://t.co/8k6YsRHBh2 Most var's fn as WT; 9 novel PPARg cause loss-of-fn #AGBT15

8:02pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

AM: Now application of MITE-Seq ot PPARg in human fat cells: a master reglator of adipocyte diff and antidiabetic drug target #AGBT15

8:01pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

AM: Engineered synthetic var's found 2000x difference in specificities to antibiotics #AGBT15

8:00pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

AM:ID of spec-determining residues. Positions tolerated or depleted under paromycin selection #AGBT15

7:59pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

AM: (These tweets dedicated to Keith R of @omicsomicsblog) #AGBT15

7:58pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

AM: Dec [kana] -> fewer mutations. Showed structure of predicted changes. More tolerance for mut's outside the core #AGBT15

7:58pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

AM: MITE library, selection in liquid carbinicellin w/diff conc of aminoglycoside. Showed map of kanamycin conc-dep sequence act map #AGBT15

7:57pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

AM: APH(3')II bacterial enzyme; 6 aminoglycoside antibiotics w/diff structures / potencies. Synth 4997 single aa subst across enz #AGBT15

7:56pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

AM:Deep mut scanning; 1000's of mutated protein-coding var's; select for fn via cell-based assay; char seq http://t.co/ElLnEvEJ6i #AGBT14

7:55pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

#AGBT15: Ion AmpliSeq Transcriptome poster interview (Video) http://t.co/9VbYPk0KTy Behind the Bench Blog

7:55pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

Alexandre Melnikov, The Broad Inst "Comprehensive Mutational Scanning of Bacterial and Human Proteins Using MITE-Seq” #AGBT15

7:53pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

#AGBT15: Ion AmpliSeq Automation (Video) http://t.co/h2uN5ABHrT Behind the Bench blog

7:50pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

.@froggleston And I can reveal that ERCC controls are handy for single cell transcriptomics Behind the Bench http://t.co/tmN74Tk3e3 #AGBT

7:48pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite in reply to

RT @splon: Donna Muzny #AGBT15 Lightning exome for clinical diagnosis, make all the library steps and hybridization efficient. Turnaround 3…

7:46pm February 27th 2015 via Twitter Web Client

#AGBT15: The Avalanche of NGS Data http://t.co/lYJNyGiAuu Behind the Bench blog

7:39pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

Nice work on Single Cell sequencing - too bad tweeps!

7:38pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

While discussing natural human knockouts w/a new friend at #ASHG15 I was told to thank my paralogues. So there it is.

5:41pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH:Announces instrument - $75K cost, $500/sample, Q2 availability #AGBT15

5:00pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH: Quotes Jay Shendure (UW Mendelian genetics center), "high quality exomes from 1ng!" #AGBT15

4:59pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH: Showed slide from David Jaffe's talk last night - 'behaves like 100kb accurate read'. #AGBT15

4:58pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH: Shows strong PPV and sensitivity data with a fraction of input for WES. #AGBT15

4:57pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

.@milospm1206 Yes it is remarkable technology; we've been hearing at #AGBT15 how impt large structural variation is.

4:57pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite in reply to

BH: Large-scale structural rearrangements LUMPY ref: http://t.co/A6oSyLqPnN showed nice reduction of errors #AGBT15

4:56pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH: Across HLA-DPA1, HLA-DPB1, HLA-DPB2. Not their focus but can give a glimpse of potential #AGBT15

4:54pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH: Can go in and pull out only the exome, at 139x, can get 95% SNPs phased; 96% of genes #AGBT15

4:53pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH: (That video actually got applause. Nicely done!) #AGBT15

4:52pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH: Built Loupe, a haplotype-aware browser. Animation from NA12878: nothing like a cool video with a waltz. 'Who's your daddy?' #AGBT15

4:51pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH:Software based on std tools (BWA, GATK), linux-based, 'open-platform for high-throughput NGS' #AGBT15

4:49pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH: Recycling - going back to the template with additional adapter priming/extension rounds. Then finish ends w/PCR #AGBT15

4:48pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH: <10fg / partition; 0.3% of genome per GEM; 90% gel bead fill rate. #AGBT15

4:47pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH:Gelbead dissolves, releasing thousands of barcodes into the bubble. So 1ng DNA now has >100K barcoded partitions #AGBT15

4:46pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH: 54um bead, movie looks just like RainDance with emulsifying in oil. >100K reactions/5min. Gelbead in emulsion ("GEM") #AGBT15

4:45pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH: GemCode system. 750K reagents in 1 tube; a 14bp barcode with a gelbead; highly uniform; built-in seq adapter & primer #AGBT15

4:44pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH:Why not done at scale before? 384 partitions, Now >100K. Barcodes 384 vs. 750K. Input 100ng vs 1ng #AGBT15

4:43pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH: Instead of nanopore, individual partitioning and molecular barcode. For both WGS and targeted; simple workflow #AGBT15

4:42pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH: With linked reads: Accurate SNPs, haplotyping, precise counting, critical content (HLA), de novo, structural var's #AGBT15

4:41pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

BH: 'This is the first technical presentation on 10X ever.' #AGBT15

4:40pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

Ben Hindson 10X Genomics “Long Range Applications With Short Read Sequencing” #AGBT15

4:40pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

JS: Used BAC-based approach to get closure of Chr20 gap. #AGBT15

1:37pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

JS: 'We discovered a large number of large struct var's in genes that are disease related' #AGBT15

1:33pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

JS: For struct var, used Symap, UCSC tools, then a script to compare to GRCh38. Est total in AK1 ~21K 130kb ins 79kb del #AGBT15

1:33pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

JS: Used optical maps (Bionano) to fill gaps, also SMRT subreads. Of 604 total, 250 closed, 180 extended, 174 still open Total 5.4Mb #AGBT15

1:27pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

JS: AK1, used 215GB ~72x on PacBio; ave RL 13.4kb. FALCON + Daligner made it fast - 4-5d. N50 7.3Mb, 2.8Gb length. 91% coverage #AGBT15

1:25pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

JS: Mongolian project (GENDISCAN), Kazakshstan Genome project, Korean BAC Clone project (2001) #AGBT15

1:23pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

Jeong-Sun Seo (Seoul Nat'l Univ, MacroGen) "De novo assembly of an asian diploid genome using SMRT sequencing" #AGBT15

1:21pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

DC: Can do 1st and 2nd-pass alignments in GRCh37 and compare to GRCh38; beware of misassembly of 37 that appears as missing in 38 #AGBT15

1:15pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite

RT @drgitlin: DC: alternate loci contain genes! If you’re not using them in your analyses you’re missing important information. #AGBT15

1:12pm February 27th 2015 via Hootsuite