PolITiGenomics

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 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..

Keystone award for data center

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in IT | No Comments »

The Genome Center's new Data Center Building won the prestigious (I'm told) Keystone Award for Project of the Year from the St. Louis Association of General Contractors. This award is ... Read more..

AML genome news

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Here is some of the coverage in the press of the AML cancer genome sequencing paper: Science News, The New York Times, WUSM MedNews, Washington Post, Reuters, MIT Technology Review. ... Read more..

First whole cancer genome sequenced

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 4 Comments »

In tomorrow's issue of Nature, three papers detailing the sequencing of entire human genomes are being published. All of the sequencing reported in the papers was generated using the Illumina/Solexa ... Read more..

TSP news

Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

As discussed in a previous post, the Tumor Sequencing Project has just published its initial findings from sequencing 623 genes in 188 patients with lung adenocarcinoma in Nature, Somatic mutations ... Read more..

Towards a cure for cancer

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in genomics | 6 Comments »

Recently, The Genome Center's Dr. Elaine Mardis gave a talk at the Cold Spring Harbor's Personal Genomes meeting. The topic of the talk was the ever increasing efforts of the ... Read more..

Vote!

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Posted in politics | 2 Comments »

Registration deadlines in all states are coming up fast. So if you are not currently registered, find out where you can register and do it. Oh, and watch the Vice Presidential ... Read more..

The Genome Center celebrities

Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Recently, a few employees at The Genome Center have appeared in the local press. First, a story on Companion's Bakery featured a picture of informaticians Scott Smith and Chris Harris. ... Read more..