diagnostic microbiology

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 [...]

Research Fellow in Microbial Bioinformatics

Research Fellow Microbial Bioinformatics University of Birmingham - School of Biosciences Salary: from £27,428 to £37,990 a year Fixed term: until 31 July 2016 Closing date: 17 December 2011 Reference: 47410 Applications are invited for a Research Fellow position devoted to bioinformatics support and research in the field of high-throughput sequencing and the microbiology of trauma patients. This exciting opportunity [...]

Live Tweets from Applying Advanced Molecular Techniques to Healthcare Infection Day 3

Here is a crude file dump of my live tweets from the third day of the Applying Advanced Molecular Techniques to Healthcare Infection. Same caveats as before: apologies for extraneous material, but something better than nothing. Also have created newspaper of links from the meeting here: http://paper.li/mjpallen/1319610603 #AAMTHI am signing off live tweeting and will start [...]

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 [...]

Are diagnostic and public health bacteriology ready to become branches of genomic medicine?

This article of ours has just appeared in Genome Medicine. Pallen and Loman Genome Medicine 2011, 3:53 http://genomemedicine.com/content/3/8/53 MUSINGS: Are diagnostic and public health bacteriology ready to become branches of genomic medicine? Mark J Pallen* and Nicholas J Loman Diagnostic medical bacteriology is a conservative discipline. When busy house officers scribble ‘M, C & S’ [...]