PolITiGenomics

What’s in an SRF?

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

I have written a bit about the NCBI Short Read Archive (SRA), its internals, and data transfer rates. Here is some information about the data format people are using to ... Read more..

How fast?

Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

In a recent post, I spoke about the data format that will be used by the NCBI Short Read Archive (SRA), but storing the data is only part of the ... Read more..

N Genomes

Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 5 Comments »

Earlier this week there were several meetings about the 1000 Genomes Project at Cold Spring Harbor Labs. The first meeting Monday morning was about data flow and data repositories. ... Read more..

More work to be done

Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

A significant amount of effort in genomics over the past year has focused on cancer-related sequencing. However, as a recent story on the role of genetics in schizophrenia demonstrates, ... Read more..

1000 Genomes

Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 2 Comments »

This week The Genome Center will begin sequencing our first samples from the 1000 Genomes Project. This project, which aims to create a much deeper understanding of normal human ... Read more..