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Breast cancer quartet

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Today in Nature our recent research studying basal-like breast cancer as compared to normal DNA, a subsequent brain metastasis, and a xenograft derived from the primary tumor (a xenograft is ... Read more..

Twitterpated

Monday, April 12th, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Just wanted to let everyone know that The Genome Center is now on Facebook and Twitter. So become a fan a listen to our tweets (immediately after typing that sentence ... Read more..

Sing like a bird

Thursday, April 1st, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The zebra finch reference genome and several companion papers are being published today in Nature and Genome Research. The zebra finch is a model for human vocal development and it ... Read more..

Profiling aromatase inhibitor response in breast cancer

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

GenomeWeb's In Sequence magazine recently posted a story about The Genome Center's efforts, led by Elaine Mardis, to determine genetic patterns associated with aromatase inhibitor, a common therapy that blocks ... Read more..

New data center approved

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 Posted in IT, genomics | 1 Comment »

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..