Today (February 17, 2014) marks the end of the 2014 Advances in Genome Biology and Technology, an annual gathering whose principals include Dr. Eric Green (Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute) and Dr. Elaine Mardis (co-director, with Rick Wilson, of the Washington University Genome Institute). Every year they line up a great roster of engaging and interesting speakers (here’s the agenda for the meeting) and I thought I take a few moments to share some of the highlights from one talk.
I know there are many who want to hear about all the latest technology, and certainly there was a lot of new technology on display that I’ll write about over the next few weeks, including the latest from (in no particular order) Oxford Nanotechnology, Gencell Bio (and their remarkable CLiC™ liquid handler), and Nabsys a single-molecule genomic mapping instrument. (Some others to tease you with are the latest target enrichment from WaferGen, PacBio’s excellent showing with their new C5-P3 chemistry, and other technology such as quantum-tunneling based sequencing and using droplet digital PCR for haplotype phasing – I’m getting ahead of myself though.)