PolITiGenomics

The Pac’s out of the bag

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Most of you have probably already seen this, but Pacific Biosciences announced the institutions that will be getting their first ten prototype instruments (Bio-IT World, GenomeWeb, MarketWatch). The Genome Center ... Read more..

Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics Update

Friday, February 19th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | 6 Comments »

I updated the Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics table a few weeks ago but forgot to mention it on the blog. The main update was the 50G configuration of the Illumina GA ... Read more..

Puff piece

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

Why should one be skeptical of all the information touting the wonders of cloud computing? This older, in-depth piece by Gartner, Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2009, lays out the ... Read more..

Seq-o-matic ’76

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Soon after Illumina announced its HiSeq 2000, it also announced the GA IIx's little brother, the GA IIe. The IIe will produce about half as much data as the IIx, ... Read more..

Life finds a way

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in genomics | 7 Comments »

Earlier this week Life Technologies announced the next revision of their SOLiD platform, SOLiD 4. I don't have all the details that I had for the Illumina HiSeq 2000, but ... Read more..

Data Center in St. Louis Commerce Magazine

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

There is a story about regional data centers in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of St. Louis Commerce Magazine that includes a section on our Genome Data Center; the only regional ... Read more..

NCI on PCGP

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) posted a couple stories that discuss, directly and indirectly, the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project. The first, St. Jude, Washington University Launch Genome Project for Childhood ... Read more..

Pediatric Cancer Genome Project

Monday, January 25th, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Today, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announced a joint Pediatric Cancer Genome Project. This project aims to sequence tumor and normal ... Read more..

HiSeq 2000

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | 9 Comments »

Today Illumina announced their new, high-throughput sequencing instrument, the HiSeq 2000. Sure, the name isn't that great, but the capabilities, if not game changing, are a significant step forward: the ... Read more..

Head in the clouds

Sunday, January 10th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | 2 Comments »

It seems that due to my recent post, Bioinformatics and cloud computing, I have been labeled a cloud skeptic. While I don't reject that label outright, I won't accept it ... Read more..