Category Archives: Omics
When Whole Genome Sequencing becomes passe
In a recent blog post at MassGenomics talking about the recently published sequence of a Korean individual, Dan Koboldt makes an interesting observation. He notes
This week’s publication of the genome of a Korean individual in Genome Research marks the fifth individual whole genome sequenced with massively parallel sequencing platforms. The fact that this [...]
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1000 genomes, what 1000 genomes?
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Pierre asks How !#@$* do you manage 1000 genomes ??!. Perhaps we should be asking how we are going to manage 10,000 genomes, or 100,1000 and all the variants, and links between genotype and phenotype. This is going to get harder before it gets easier, and moving that data around will [...]
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Sage: Data from old stomping grounds
When I was at Rosetta Biosoftware, I was exposed to (mostly via others) to a lot of the work that came out of our parent company upstairs, especially the work of Eric Schadt. It looks like some of that work might be the basis for Sage.
Sage is an ambitious project from the [...]
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Rewarding the analysts
Science today rewards only those who collect and distribute data. There is no reward for those who organise the data and theorise based on it — Sydney Brenner
Those words are from a talk at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. I disagree with a decent chunk of what Dr. Brenner had to say, [...]
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Supercomputing Masterclass – A request for information