Monthly Archives: June 2013

Sage Science and Uniscience do Brasil Enter Into Brazilian Distribution Agreement

BEVERLY, Mass. AND SAO PAULO — June 25, 2013 — Sage Science, a developer of products for improving sample preparation processes in life science applications, and Uniscience do Brasil, the leading distributor of equipment and reagents to the Brazilian biotechnology … more »

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The new sequencer on the block: comparison of Life Technology’s Proton sequencer to an Illumina HiSeq for whole-exome sequencing

June 2013 Authors: Joseph F. Boland, Charles C. Chung, David Roberson, Jason Mitchell, Xijun Zhang, Kate M. Im, Ji He, Stephen J. Chanock, Meredith Yeager, Michael Dean Info: An exome-sequencing study from the NIH comparing Illumina/Nimblegen to Ion Torrent/TargetSeq. Pippin … more »

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From the Trenches: PacBio User Shares Experience with BluePippin

As the BluePippin makes its way to more users of the Pacific Biosciences sequencing platform, there is great data emerging on how our high-pass size selection protocol really complements the sequencer. A particularly nice example of this comes from Lex … more »

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Back from Baltimore and the Stellar PacBio UGM

Earlier this week Pacific Biosciences hosted a user group meeting at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, and we were pleased to participate in and co-sponsor the event. As our blog readers know, we recently announced a co-marketing partnership with … more »

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Skin Microbiome Imbalance in Patients with STAT1/STAT3 Defects Impairs Innate Host Defense Responses

Authors: Sanne P. Smeekens, c Curtis Huttenhower, Anca Riza, Frank L. van de Veerdonk, Patrick L.J.M. Zeeuwen, Joost Schalkwijk, Jos W.M. van der Meer, Ramnik J. Xavier, Mihai G. Netea, Dirk Gevers Info: Genomic DNA was subjected to 16S PCR … more »

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ASMS, Here We Come!

We are packing our bags for Minneapolis and the 61st annual conference of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. As scientists who come from the DNA realm, the protein world is very exciting to us and we’re looking forward to … more »

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A Filtering Method to Generate High Quality Short Reads Using Illumina Paired-End Technology

June 2013 Authors: A. Murat Eren, Joseph H. Vineis., Hilary G. Morrison, Mitchell L. Sogin Info: The authors present a method of library preparation for overlapping paired-end sequencing on the Illumina platform, and improved analysis software, to reduce the error … more »

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