Ion Torrent: Hype cycle status “disillusionment”
I’m as guilty as anyone about buying into the hype. When I labelled the Ion Torrent an “agile gazelle” earlier this year, a reader admonished me for not being skeptical enough. Well, he was right, I was wrong. The tediously useful hype cycle has come into play and we’ve hit disillusionment rather earlier than expected [...]
Genome sequencing platforms compared for bacterial de novo assemblies
Wow, I haven’t blogged for ages. Partly this is the usual excuse of not having time, and partly a lack of inspiration. Sorry. Perhaps just before Xmas is the wrong time to get my mojo back, but I guess that’s the way life is. So what’s been happening? Well, on the sequencing front we’ve recently [...]