It is not everyday that you get to hear a Nobel laureate or the former director of the NIH speak. It is even less frequent that you get to hear someone who was both. For me, yesterday was such a day. Harold Varmus, MD, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, gave The Julia Hudson Freund Memorial Lecture here at Washington University School of Medicine. His talk was... Full Post
The next upgrade of the 454 FLX platform is called Titanium. The previous name gave a better indication of what the upgrade entails: XLR-HD which is short for eXtra Long Reads-High Density. The XLR is due to the run having twice the number of cycles so the average read length will increase from 250 to 400 bases (the average read length is not exactly double due to nucleotide flow order, mononucleotide runs, degraded signal as... Full Post
Similar to Ars Technica's list a couple weeks ago, PC Magazine is running a story about each presidential candidate's position on net neutrality, broadband availability, H-1B visas, intellectual property protection, and privacy. Full Post
On a mailing list I am on, someone posted this question. Here's a slightly off topic question. My company is looking at doing some engineering for a computer data center. We are talking power to the data center, electrical engineering. The Engineer just came to me and was wondering if there are any guidelines out there that give suggestions from an IT standpoint. He has suggestions from the building engineer. They have supplied a max... Full Post
(Author's note: It was recommended by a loyal reader that I bring more sports into my blog. Since the name of the blog is PolITiGenomics and not AthlITigenomics, this is as close as you are going to get.) This week the NBA finals tip off. The match up is a throwback: Celtics and Lakers. The last time these two teams played each other in the finals was in the 1980's. Then all the talk was... Full Post