Automation may seem a straightforward task, for those who have not tackled it before As an attendee of Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (#AGBT19) there are plenty of new things to check out, and while it may not be as cutting edge as spatial genomics or mRNA isoform discovery […]
An unusual presentation by a recently-retired NASA scientist Dr. John Charles shares an unusual and highly entertaining presentation entitled “From here to Mars: How the Twins Study and the year-long ISS mission have moved us closer to the red planet” The agenda of AGBT runs a wide range of topics, […]
NGHRI’s Dr. Adam Phillippy presents a remarkable dataset – the telomere-to-telomere assembly of a complete human X chromosome When the completion of the Human Genome Project was announced on June 6, 2002, President Bill Clinton said the following: We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of […]
A Wellcome Trust supported effort, The Long Read Club seeks to resurrect a time-honored tradition: protocol development After a long 5 days away from home and work and the routines that surround it, attending AGBT (and likewise other major conferences) is a tremendous amount of work. I was teasing a […]
According to one thought-leader, it was the highlight of Advances of Genome Biology and Technology 2019 in Marco Island FL Way back in 1997 Craig Venter and Daniel Cohen (co-founder of Millenium Pharmaceuticals, among other things) wrote an essay entitled ‘The Century of Biology’. Here we are a little under […]
Single-cell isoforms from long-reads take the stage at the Advances for Genome Biology and Technology, along with structural variation and better reference genomes. Underlying all these advances is better long-read technology from Pacific Biosciences and Oxford Nanopore. Thinking a little further about the overarching theme of this year’s Advances in […]
From specialty development, laboratory automation, and even IVD approval there options that abound Here at Advances in Genome Biology and Technology 2019 (#AGB19) you come across plenty of companies new and old. On one floor of the exhibitor suites I counted 17 companies, and on the second floor there were […]
A commercial platform for droplet genomics Once upon a time Fluidigm had a single-system called the C1. Okay, it was back in September of 2013 that I wrote about it here; reading what I wrote way back then over five years ago there are newer and improved SMARTer cDNA kits […]
There may still be room in NGS for innovation in workflow A few years ago Illumina’s Scientific Affairs team put together a gigantic wall-poster of all the different types of library preparation methods for next-generation sequencing (NGS). Today there are no less than three posters (one for DNA, one for […]
Structural variation in genomics is a challenging task. To detect inversions, large deletions (by ‘large’ this is generally defined to be anything more than 50 bases or so), large insertions, and translocations in the genome takes a lot of creative alignment algorithms and hard work. Also you need to orthogonally […]
This year for the first time in three years the annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology conference (#AGBT19) will be held back in Marco Island Florida, where it traditionally was held for many years. Those not familiar with AGBT, it is a specialty conference that began in the 1990’s […]
Pharmacogenetics, cancer genetics, cardiac genetics, WGS… AI-aided genetic counseling for healthcare organizations and genetic testing companies Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gaining in the popular consciousness. Last week, the White House announced The American AI Initiative with new investment, government AI R&D resources opened up, establishing AI governance and emphasizing education […]
