It somehow escaped my attention last November when it was announced and earlier this year in February when the ceremony was held that Richard K. Wilson and George M. Weinstock, Director and Associate Director, respectively, of The Genome Center, were elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Congratulations to both! Full Post
I should have posted this earlier, but things have been pretty busy. In any event, I will be presenting a poster next week at the Biology of Genomes meeting at Cold Spring Harbor. The poster is entitled "Maximizing utility of genome sequence data". Here is the abstract. Advances in DNA sequencing technologies over the past few years have led to data generation and processing rates that far outpace Moore's Law and storage capacity improvements. As... Full Post
Science Magazine has a nice article, Sanger Who? Sequencing the Next Generation, describing past sequencing technology, the current "next-generation" sequencing instruments and their capabilities, and several of the companies working to become the next big thing in sequencing. If you are interested in learning, at a high level, how each of the technologies work and how they compare to each other, it is worth a read. Full Post
I will be speaking at OSCON 2009 in San Jose, CA. My talk, entitled The Freedom to Cure Cancer: Open Source Software in Genomics, will be at 10:45 a.m. PDT on Friday 24 July 2009. If you are planning to attend OSCON this year, let me know (and be sure to attend my talk). Full Post
Predictably, the roles of the political pundits have changed since January 20th. Those who called people who questioned the president "un-American" only four months ago, are now questioning the president (and much more). The Daily Show examines the phenomena in a clip well worth watching. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c Baracknophobia - Obey comedycentral.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor Full Post