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Thursday, 29 September 2011

Keeping up with the Joneses, genomics style

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23andMe just launched their new programme to perform exome sequencing for individuals. The Exome80 "Personal exome sequencing" wi...
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Thursday, 22 September 2011

Resequencing cancer gene loci

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There is an enormous demand for resequencing of specific cancer loci. BRCA1 & 2, TP53, PTEN, KRAS, are already being Sanger sequenced in...
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Monday, 19 September 2011

My genome analysis part 1

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It's my birthday in a few weeks and I thought I'd get myself genotyped by 23andMe as a birthday present to myself. The lab I run o...
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Thursday, 15 September 2011

How much does the BBC reckon I get paid?

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Are you considering a science degree? If so then the BBC has a finance calculator on its website designed for students in the UK who could b...
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Friday, 9 September 2011

I am not a Bioinformatician: 1. Experiences with UCSC DAS

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I am not a Bioinformatician but I often want to do things Bioinformaticians say are easy. This is the first in a possible series of blogs ab...
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Thursday, 8 September 2011

Sequencing versus arrays

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This is the big question for many labs today, especially core facilities investing in technology for the longer term. Everyone wants t...
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Friday, 2 September 2011

Next generation sequencing acronyms

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The list at the bottom is occasionally edited to include new methods. There is an ever increasing number of next generation sequencing acro...
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Wednesday, 31 August 2011

Balancing privacy of individuals against opportunities to increase awareness of Cancer

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There has been a lot in the news recently about Steve Jobs fight with Pancreatic cancer. The impact on Apple has been discussed at length ( ...
Tuesday, 30 August 2011

The NIH view on core facilities Part 2: what does it mean for you and I

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What should a core offer?           The authors of the Science TranslationalMedicine paper list four things a core needs: (i) sophisticate...

The NIH view on core facilities

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A recent commentary article in Science TranslationalMedicine on core facilities is probably of interest to those other core lab directors r...