SmartFlares™ – single-molecule fluorescence of RNA in-vivo

At last week’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting in Washington D.C., it is the serendipitous discovery from walking around the exhibit hall that gets the creative thinking going. And at such a large venue – there were about 17,000 scientists in attendance – you never know what you’ll […]

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The Ion Torrent Proton at Advances in Genome Biology and Technology AGBT

This week the annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting is being held, as it usually is, in Marco Island Florida. As a Gulf Coast resort area complete with white sand beaches and thatched hut shade, Marco Island every February has been one of the ‘must attend’ conferences […]

What do you have to sell?

A little while ago I spent a few days in a meeting room with several other strangers, taking in wisdom about ‘Effective Executive Presentations’. A few of the attendees were from Operations, one from Sales, myself from Marketing, one from Finance, and one from I’m not exactly sure where, perhaps […]

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Seeing shades of the future: NGS and Personalized Medicine

In the world of NGS a sea-change is occurring, and that is the shift to clinical applications of this technology to personalized medicine. It seems like a long time ago and it was only in 2005 when the Roche / 454 GS-20 first started appearing in genomics laboratories, and 2007 […]

Single molecule in-situ RNA startup Advanced Cell Diagnostics

FFPE (Formalin-fixed paraffin embedded) tissues are standard preparations in the clinical world. It has been estimated that there are millions of FFPE samples stored in countless hospital laboratories and research pathology groups, all part of a standard operating procedure among pathologists and other hospital personnel. These tissue samples are embedded […]

Moleculo and Haplotype Phasing

A few weeks ago at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Summit in San Francisco, Illumina announced that they acquired a startup company called Moleculo that provides virtual long reads of 8 to 10kb. Single molecule sequencing will provide long reads (Pacific Bioscience’s RS will now go out to 5kb, although the […]

Marketing from the Inside versus the Outside

Regardless of where you are in your professional career, everyone needs to have a certain amount of selling skills. It is essential, for reasons I’ll get to in a moment. And yet sales is looked down upon, for various reasons.

Deciding to pursue an MBA, or not 2

Way back when, over ten years ago now, I wondered whether I should take additional time (not to mention a lot of money) to pursue an MBA. This was around the year 2000, as the dotcom boom was in full swing, and engineers were dropping out of the workforce in […]

RNA-Seq and Exome Sequencing webinar presentation

Hello everyone, this post is made while I’m officially on vacation, so while I may post later this week it will only be for recreational purposes. 🙂 I plan to hold two different webinars at three different occasions this upcoming November 28, 29 and 30, 2012 for any interested in […]

Single molecule mapping OpGen making slow progress 2

In contrast to BioNano Genomics, who is starting commercialization with early access customers now and full commercial launch in the Spring of 2013, OpGen launched the Argus™ Optical Mapping system in the summer of 2010. Their customers use this system for microbial strain mapping, mainly for infectious disease research or […]

BioNano Genomics explores Copy Number Variation 5

ASHG 2012 in San Francisco is finally over! The exhibit booths get torn down, the equipment gets packed up and shipped to storage, and hundreds of foot-weary front-line soldiers get back to their normal routines, whether in sales, marketing, product development, R&D or product management.

Oxford Nanopore and commercialization at ASHG 2012 6

Here at ASHG 2012 in San Francisco this week, a ton of activity around the exhibitors, and Life Technologies does not disappoint with the Ion Bus on the show floor, an open 20 foot x 30 foot booth, a new digital PCR instrument (the QuantStudio 3D) introduced, two luncheon workshops, […]