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Thursday, 27 March 2014

Illumina vs LifeTechnologies: the latest instrument comparison

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A recent PLoS One paper is perhaps the latest battle in the Illumina vs LifeTech war. The latest paper in PLOS ONE presents a comparison of...
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Wednesday, 26 March 2014

3TC-seq: differential expression from degraded RNA

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Joakim Lundeberg at the Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden has published a nice paper in PLoS One on the impact of RNA degradat...
Monday, 24 March 2014

5mC-PCR: preserving methylation status during polymerase chain reaction

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Methylation analysis is hampered by the simple fact that PCR amplification removes methylation marks from native DNA. We came up with a sim...
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Friday, 21 March 2014

Some help with your stats

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Stats: not everyone's favourite subject but something we can't avoid so understanding the basics is a very good idea. We're luc...
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Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Can RNA-seq stop Tour de France dopers?

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The BBC ran an article a few weeks ago on the possibility of performance enhancing genetics : think Team BMC Genomics! The piece has an int...
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Tuesday, 18 March 2014

How long can you store your NGS libraries: DNA adsorption demystified

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We've been running Illumina NGS in my lab for six and a half years and have almost 8000 libraries in our -20 going back almost to the s...
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Saturday, 15 March 2014

Cheaper RNA-seq: but you might have to give up strandeness and splicing

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I'm going to start this post by saying something that may be controversial "splicing analysis is a niche, strandedness is useful ...
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Wednesday, 5 March 2014

in-situ RNA-seq for digital pathologists

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An awesome demonstration of what's possible when people think outside the box: Highly Multiplexed Subcellular RNA Sequencing in Situ i...
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Monday, 24 February 2014

Revealing the true utility of ctDNA

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The most recent ctDNA paper verifies its utility as a “broadly applicable, sensitive, and specific biomarker” across “multiple different ...
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Saturday, 15 February 2014

The best talk at ABGT so far

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This years AGBT has again been a full program from dawn to dusk (or later). This year my favourite session has been Fridays Genomic Technol...
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