Seqbench: A useful meta-database of sequence reads from multiple platforms
Benchtop Sequencer Comparison paper
In case you haven’t seen our recent paper, you can download the paper here (subscription required): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2198 Performance comparison of benchtop high-throughput sequencing platforms Nature Biotechnology advance online publication published online 22 April 2012 Nicholas J Loman, Raju V Misra, Timothy J Dallman, Chrystala Constantinidou, Saheer E Gharbia, John Wain & Mark J Pallen Here is a press [...]
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 [...]
2011: Review of a Remarkable Year
2011 has been a remarkable year for me, during which I have travelled widely, met lots of interesting people, recruited substantial grant funding and had a paper published in the journal with the highest impact factor of them all! So, at the risk of producing one of those cheesy round-Robin letters that get stuffed in [...]
Live Tweets from Applying Advanced Molecular Techniques to Healthcare Infection Days 1-2
Here is a crude file dump of my tweets from this Wellcome Trust retreat. You will have to read them in reverse order and ignore the extraneous material, but I thought it was worth getting them archived and available here, together with relevant links second attempt to upload slide illustrating #genomicfundamentalism featuring Lord [...]
Vorsprung durch Technik: talk at Prokagenomics 2011 in Göttingen, Germany
http://youtu.be/HyN2BZPItrg
Vorsprung durch Technik: Talk on Open-source genomics of German E. coli outbreak
A talk given at the University of Birmingham Open Day 10 Sept 2011 Further information on the topics covered in this talk can be found here: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1106483 (source of figures illustrating epidemiology of outbreak) https://github.com/ehec-outbreak-crowdsourced/BGI-data-analysis/wiki http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/blog/ http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1107643 http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/staff/mpallen.html http://carlzimmer.com/books/microcosm/index.html http://twitter.com/#!/mjpallen http://twitter.com/#!/pathogenomenick