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This PAG Was One for the Birds (and Other Organisms, Too)

The 24th annual PAG meeting ended earlier this week, and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves — as did just about every other attendee we encountered. The avian genomics community one-upped everyone else by going on bird-watching excursions and tweeting photos of … more »

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On Our Way to the 24th Annual PAG Conference

We’re heading to San Diego this weekend, braving historic rain and mudslides for our favorite agbio conference: the International Plant & Animal Genome meeting, held January 9-13. Each year, thousands of scientists descend on the Town and Country hotel to … more »

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2015: A Look Back

People are starting to talk about their plans for New Year’s Eve, confirming a suspicion we’ve had for a while now: 2015 really is winding down! We can’t believe that 2016 is nearly upon us. As we try to remember … more »

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Sage Survey Results: Who Won the Apple Watch?

A few weeks ago we asked people to participate in a quick survey to help us make sure that our product development efforts are focused on areas of greatest need to the community. We were blown away by the response … more »

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Long Reads in All Their Glory: PacBio, ONT User Meetings Report Coming Advances

A pair of user group meetings last week offered some intriguing glimpses into the future of long-read sequencing. Oxford Nanopore customers got together in New York, while PacBio users assembled in Palo Alto, Calif. The Sage Science team attended and … more »

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Mate-Pair Sequencing Is Having a Moment

Have you been noticing the mate-pair trend? We certainly have. A technique that was once only used by a handful of labs has really come into its own as one of the preferred ways of gathering longer-range genomic data. Here … more »

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Fired Up for This Week’s Festival of Genomics

This week we’re heading to the Festival of Genomics in San Mateo, Calif. We had a blast at the first festival in Boston, so we’re excited about this next edition (and we packed our running shoes, just in case). The … more »

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Evidence for the Dizzying Pace of Progress in Genomics

The genomics field is a funny place: at times it feels like we’re not making progress quickly enough, and at other times things seem to be moving so fast we’re just holding on for dear life. We were reminded of … more »

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Back from Baltimore, and Thinking About Large DNA Fragments

Many thanks to the ASHG attendees who visited us at the Sage Science booth or stopped by our poster! ASHG 2015 was terrific, and the Sage team had a blast reconnecting with scientists and customers. Naturally, in a meeting of … more »

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For MicroRNA Discovery, Pippin Prep Delivers Highest Yield and Specificity

In a highly accessed paper in BMC Medical Genomics, scientists from McGill University and EMBL tested several steps to find the most robust pipeline for discovering small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs) that might be useful as biomarkers. As part of this … more »

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