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, an Ion Torrent User Group meeting, a special SF Museum of Modern Art event on one evening, and an Ion Lounge evening event on the other. (These last two events were described internally as ‘networking only’, which is a code-word for a great social event.)