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2011: Review of a Remarkable Year
By Mark Pallen on December 31, 2011
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 [...]
G-Day Arrives!
By Nick Loman on August 6, 2009
I was anticipating today like a kid waiting for Santa Claus. What could provide such excitement – nothing less than a brand-new 454 DNA sequencer from Roche of course! This ‘high-throughput’ sequencer ( ‘next-generation’ now applies to a new set of instruments looming on the horizon) is the key to infinite potential genetic studies, from [...]