PolITiGenomics
Politics, Information Technology, and Genomics
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.
New data center approved
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »
The Genome Center recently received word that its grant proposal for a data center was approved (St. Louis Business Journal). The $14.3 million grant is funded by National Center for ... Read more..Me, in podcast form
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »
I recently did an interview in advance of my talk at the XGen Congress next month in San Diego. The interview is about 14 minutes and discusses our work at ... Read more..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..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..Corn genome sequenced published
Friday, November 20th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »
Chalk another one up for the corn lobby (damn those Iowa caucuses!), the maize genome has been published. More seriously, this maize genome reference sequence, much like the human genome ... Read more..Eric Green new head of NHGRI
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »
Eric Green, head of NHGRI Intramural Research and the NHGRI Intramural Sequencing Center, has been named as the new National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Director. A Washington University in ... Read more..Stimulating research
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | 2 Comments »
Yesterday on NPR there was a story that questioned the utility of using stimulus funds for long-term research. I am not sure exactly why they use the phrase "long-term" since ... Read more..State of cancer genome sequencing
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »
The Genome Center's Elaine Mardis and Rick Wilson have just published a review article on cancer genome sequencing. The article focuses on the application of next-generation sequencing technologies to the ... Read more..Expansion
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in IT | No Comments »
The Genome Data Center has received a Gold LEED Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. This is in addition to the Keystone Award from the St. Louis Association of ... Read more..All original content on this blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
