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 paper published in Nature yesterday. The show starts at 2 p.m. EST but will be interrupted on our local NPR station, KWMU 90.7 FM, for President-elect Obama's press conference at 2:20 p.m. EST. So if you want to listen, it might be better to listen on-line... Full Post
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 given to construction projects in the St. Louis area for building excellence in the fields of safety, constructibility, speed, budget, etc. You can see more pictures of the data center on flickr. Now that we have moved in, I will post some more pictures as... Full Post
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1776 It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave... Full Post
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 next-generation sequencing platform. The first paper, Accurate whole human genome sequencing using reversible terminator chemistry, describes the deep sequencing of a YRI (African) HapMap individual by Illumina. The second paper, The diploid genome sequence of an Asian individual, marks the publication of the first Asian... Full Post
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. Or, you can search on Google News. Below is a segment from the CBS Evening News featuring Rick Wilson, Director of The Genome Center. Watch CBS Videos Online Update: Added CBS video. Full Post