PolITiGenomics

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..

Breakin’ 3: Genomic Variations

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

In the long awaited follow up to Breakin' and Breakin' 2, Ken Chen has released BreakDancer. As described in his Nature Methods article and a recent Genome Technology article, BreakDancer ... Read more..

My secret past

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

Now everyone will know about my secret past before I joined The Genome Center: David Dooling: Gangbusters at the Genome Center. Bio-IT World also has a nice interview with Clive ... Read more..

OSCON in ten minutes

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

Gregg Pollack over at Envy Labs went around OSCON with a hand held video camera asking speakers to summarize their talks in 30 seconds. He has started posting the results ... Read more..

AML in the news

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

For those interested, here is a collection of stories in the press about the recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine on the sequencing of the second whole ... Read more..

Second whole cancer genome published

Thursday, August 6th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »

Today in the New England Journal of Medicine the second paper detailing the whole genome sequencing of a tumor and its matched normal was published: Recurring Mutations Found by Sequencing ... Read more..

HMP Short Attention Span Theater

Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »

For those of you who don't like reading, The Genome Center's George Weinstock, Ph.D., explains the Human Microbiome Project and a few of the HMP demonstration project grants in under ... Read more..