All the Tweets from #MMGC 2012
Rapid Next-Generation-Sequencing Conference for Public Health and Clinical Microbiology was held in Münster last week. The title is pretty self-explanatory. It is probably the first meeting since last summer’s E. coli outbreak in Germany to allow epidemiologists, microbiologists and genomicists to get together and discuss the impact the rapid release of genome data had on [...]
Which technology won AGBT?
This picture tells quite a story (Wordle constructed from 3,386 tweets and retweets tagged #AGBT with mentions/@s removed).
AGBT 2012 Day 4 Tweets
(Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4) Well, yesterday’s megaton announcement from Oxford Nanopore certainly made up for what had been a slightly subdued AGBT 2012, at least in the way of new technology. I’d definitely recommend checking out this list of excellent blog posts covering the scientific sessions, which I will continue to [...]
All the Oxford Nanopore Videos
The Oxford Nanopore website is struggling a bit due to the huge interest generated by their announcement earlier today, so I’ve embedded their new videos in this post for you to view: The last one entitled “Run Until”: DNA sequencing informatics on the GridION and MinION systems doesn’t seem to want to embed properly … [...]
Oxford Nanopore megaton announcement: “Why do you need a machine?” – exclusive interview for this blog!
Sometimes this genome blogging lark really pays off. Yesterday was one of those days as I got a sneak preview of the big announcement at AGBT, and 20 minutes to speak with Oxford Nanopore’s Dan Turner (Director of Applications), Clive Brown (Chief Technical Officer) and Zoe McDougall (Director of Comms). The downside of course was [...]
Oxford Nanopore introduces DNA ‘strand sequencing’ on the high-throughput GridION™ platform and presents MinION™, a sequencer the size of a USB memory stick
EMBARGO: Friday 17 February, noon EST/5pm UK Oxford Nanopore introduces DNA ‘strand sequencing’ on the high-throughput GridION™ platform and presents MinION™, a sequencer the size of a USB memory stick – New generation of sequencing technology uses nanopores to deliver ultra long read length single molecule sequence data, at competitive accuracy, on scalable electronic GridION [...]
AGBT 2012 Tweets Day 3
(Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4) AGBT has been low on announcements so far. As Dan Koboldt says people are now a bit more focused on how to interpret all that lovely data they’ve been generating. Probably no bad thing, but that’s not what we want from AGBT. We want buzz, hype, outrageous [...]
AGBT 2012 Blog Post Round-up
A round-up of blog posts covering AGBT … will add to this when something catches my eye. This blog Oxford Nanopore megaton announcement: “Why do you need a machine?” – exclusive interview for this blog! All the Oxford Nanopore videos Which technology won AGBT? AGBT 2012 day 1 tweets AGBT 2012 day 2 tweets AGBT [...]
#NotAGBT Breaking News: CAKSeq announce legal challenge against CrapBio
Woah, the news is hotting up at AGBT’s parallel conference #notAGBT (the anti-conference for those too impoverished, disillusioned or lazy to make it to AGBT this year). This press release just in from Chad Bower at CAKSeq suggesting CrapBio’s machine – announced yesterday – might have hit serious problems before it’s even released! Release follows: [...]
AGBT 2012 Day 2 Tweets
(Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4) Well not much in the way of huge announcements yesterday at AGBT. The biggest announcement was probably the information that Illumina are testing 400bp single-end reads in R&D on the MiSeq, with the longest achieved overlapping paired-read of 678bp. Pretty impressive stuff. The other news was of [...]