Data Analysis for Next Generation Sequencing: Challenges and Solutions
Join us next Tuesday, March 8 at 10:00 am Pacific Time for a webinar on Next Gen sequence data analysis. Register Today! http://geospizaevents.webex.com Please note the previous post had Wed. listed...
View ArticleThe Flavors of SNPs
In Blink, Malcolm Gladwell discusses how experts do expert things. Essentially they develop granular languages to describe the characteristics of items, or experiences. Food tasters, for example, use a...
View ArticleSneak Peak: The Next Generation Challenge: Developing Clinical Insights...
Next week (March 14-18, 2011) is CHI's X-Gen Congress & Expo. I'll be there presenting a poster on the next challenge in bioinformatics, also known as the information bottleneck. You can follow the...
View ArticleTranslational Bioinformatics
During the week of March 7, I had the pleasure of attending the AMIA’s (American Medical Informatics Association) summit on Translational Bioinformatics (TBI), at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco....
View ArticleSneak Peak: RNA-Sequencing Applications in Cancer Research: From fastq to...
Join us next Tuesday, April 12 at 10:00 am PST for a webinar focused on RNA-Seq applications in breast cancer research. The field of cancer genomics is advancing quickly. News reports from the annual...
View ArticleScience, Culture, Policy
What do science, culture, and policy have in common? In order to improve the quality and affordability of health care, all three have to change. This message is central to Sage Bionetworks’ mission...
View ArticleProduct Updates: GeneSifter Lab and GeneSifter Analysis Editions
Spring is here and so are new releases of the GeneSifter products. GeneSifter Lab Edition (GSLE) has been bumped up to 3.17 and GeneSifter Analysis Edition (GSAE) is now at 3.7. What's New? GSLE - This...
View ArticleBig News! PerkinElmer Acquires Geospiza
Yesterday, May 5th, PerkinElmer announced that they have acquired Geospiza. This is exciting news and a great opportunity for Geospiza's current customers, future clients, and the company itself. From...
View Article21st Century Medicine: A Question of Ps
Last Sunday and Monday (5/15, 5/16/11) the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) held their annual symposium. This year was the 10th annual and focused on "Systems Biology and P4 Medicine." For those new...
View ArticleDOE's 2011 Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future Meeting
Cactus at Bandelier National Monument Last week, June 1-3, the Department of Energy held their annual Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future (SFAF) meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico. SFAF, also...
View ArticleSneak Peak: NGS Resequencing Applications: Part I – Detecting DNA Variants
Join us next Wed. June 15 for a webinar on resequencing applications. Description: This webinar will focus on DNA variant detection using Next Generation Sequencing for the applications of targeted and...
View ArticleIt's not just science and technology
PerkinElmer is committed to improving human and environmental health. Sometimes that extends beyond delivering commercial products and services to how we participate in our community. Geospiza was...
View ArticleStitching Protein-Protien Interactions via DNA Sequencing
Stitch-Seq, one of the newest editions to the Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS) was presented in June's Nature Methods. Back in 2008, when groups were realizing the power of NGS technologies, I...
View ArticlePersonalities of Personal Genomes
"People say they want their genetic information, but they don’t." "The speaker's views of data return are frankly repugnant." These were some of the [paraphrased] comments and tweets expressed during...
View ArticleBioData at #SC11
Next week, Nov 12-18, Super Computing comes to Seattle. On Wed, Nov 15 at 12:15-1:15 pm, @finchtalk (me) will host a Birds-of-a-Feater session on "Technologies for Managing BioData" in room TCC305....
View ArticleBio Databases 2012
Let's get 2012 started with an update on the growth of biological databases. About this time last year, I summarized Nucleic Acids Research's (NAR) annual database issue where authors submit papers...
View ArticleSneak Peek: Poster Presentations at AGBT
The annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) begins tomorrow and would not be complete without a couple of contributions by @finchtalk. Follow the tweets at #AGBT and if you are at the...
View ArticleYou Have 500 Million Reads – Now What?
Come find out at our two Seattle seminars on March 6 and March 13. In these seminars we will show you how you can get answers to your RNA-Seq and Exome Analysis questions. From the brochure: Learn how...
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