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Complete Genomics back in action after 6 month funding delay
Complete Genomics is finally back on the road towards fulfilling its promises of $5000 human genome sequences, after delays in obtaining funding for a massive new facility pushed back its plans by six...
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Illumina delivers its first commercial personal genome sequence
Sequencing giant Illumina has announced that it has delivered its first commercial personal genome sequence. The sequence was generated by the genome sequencing service launched by Illumina back in...
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The informatics of new sequencing technologies
Kevin Davies from Bio-IT World has two interviews up today relevant to new DNA sequencing technologies. Firstly, there’s an excellent interview with Clive Brown, vice president of development and...
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Illumina announces new arrival in the sequencing arms race
The big news from the JP Morgan investment conference today is the announcement of a brand new shiny sequencing machine from Illumina, the HiSeq 2000. The new machine boasts an impressive set of...
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Will new sequencing technology kill arrays
Keith Robison has a perceptive piece riffing off the recent Illumina instrument launch, and ponders whether 2010 will be the year that array-based genomic technologies finally start to die off with the...
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Belated news from AGBT
I’ve been remiss in blogging from the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology meeting here in Marco Island, Florida, primarily due to some panic-stricken last-minute changes to the slides for my own...
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New players in sequencing debut at AGBT
The main theme of this year’s Advances in Genome Biology and Technology meeting should come as no surprise to regular readers: sequencing. Generating as many bases of DNA sequence as quickly, cheaply...
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Celebrity genomics without the Y chromosome: Glenn Close has her genome...
Zoe McDougall from Oxford Nanopore points me to a press release from Illumina announcing a new era of celebrity genomics: Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that it has sequenced the DNA of...
View ArticleSequencing your genome just got cheaper
Jay Flatley, CEO of sequencing giant Illumina, announced at the Consumer Genetics Conference today that the company had reduced the price of its retail whole-genome sequencing service. At $19,500 this...
View ArticleOne more step towards the end of recessive diseases
In the last century infant mortality has declined precipitously in the Western world, thanks in large part to the development of antibiotics and vaccination. Yet as the suffering and death from...
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