PolITiGenomics
Politics, Information Technology, and Genomics
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About PolITiGenomics
PolITiGenomics is a blog by David Dooling about the confluence (and sometimes incongruence) of several of the most important topics surrounding the future of human health: genomics, information technology, and politics. Entries will cover topics including genomics research, next-generation sequencing technologies, informatics, computer hardware and software, free software, and politics.
We made Parade
Sunday, December 28th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 2 Comments »
Our sequencing of the first cancer genome made Parade Magazine's Breakthroughs Of The Year. I guess we have really made it. Read more..CC bioinformatics
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »
Thanks to the beauty of Creative Commons, the folks over at CLC bio have posted a version of my next-generation sequencing informatics table that adds a new metric, Yield per ... Read more..Elaine Mardis on Cancer in Technology Review
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »
Elaine Mardis, Co-Director of The Genome Center has a brief article in the January/February 2009 issue of Technology Review discussing the application of next-generation sequencing technologies to cancer research entitled ... Read more..1000 Genome SNPs released
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »
The 1000 Genomes Project has announced its initial release of SNP data from four of the individuals sequenced to high depth-of-coverage as part of the second pilot project (trios). ... Read more..AML at ASH
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »
It seems the publication of the first whole cancer genome sequence is getting a good reception in hematology circles. This past Saturday at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American ... Read more..Using the next-generation sequencing statistics table
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »
Since posting the next-generation sequencing informatics statistics table I have received several requests asking if they could reproduce the table in one format or another. The answer is yes, as ... Read more..Ensembl on Amazon
Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog has an entry on using Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to host and access public data sets, including Ensembl release 51. The data are ... Read more..Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics
Thursday, December 4th, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics | 2 Comments »
I have put together a table with a bunch of important metrics for the major next-generation sequencing platforms: Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics (there is also a link on the left-hand side ... Read more..Junk DNA no more
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »
The New York Times has a good article, Now - The Rest of the Genome, on the latest research on genes and the non-protein-encoding parts of the genome. As reported ... Read more..AML on NPR
Friday, November 7th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »
Dr. Tim Ley of The Genome Center is going to be a guest on NPR's Talks of the Nation Science Friday today. He will be talking about the AML ... Read more..All original content on this blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
