Tag Archives: BluePippin

Assessing structural variation in a personal genome—towards a human reference diploid genome

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Alex

April 2015 Authors: Adam C English, William J Salerno, Oliver A Hampton, Claudia Gonzaga-Jauregui, Shruthi Ambreth, Deborah I Ritter, Christine R Beck, Caleb F Davis, Mahmoud Dahdouli, Singer Ma, Andrew Carroll, Narayanan Veeraraghavan, Jeremy Bruestle, Becky Drees, Alex Hastie, Ernest … more »

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TGAC Bioinformaticians Benefit from SageELF

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Alex

Darren Heavens has witnessed a fascinating transition at The Genome Analysis Centre as the Norwich, UK-based institute shifted from data-generation mode to data-analysis mode. When the center launched more than five years ago, there was a fairly even split between … more »

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New Structural Variant Analysis Method Uses Targeted Capture and Sequencing of Large-Insert DNA

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Alex

In a new BMC Genomics paper, scientists from Baylor College of Medicine describe a new method for accurate, affordable interrogation of structural variants across the human genome. We’re delighted to see that automated DNA size selection tools from Sage Science … more »

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A phylogenomic analysis of turtles

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Alex

February 2015 Authors: Nicholas G Crawford, James F Parham, Anna B Sellas, Brant C Faircloth, Travis C Glenn, Theodore J Papenfuss, James B Henderson, Madison H Hansen, W Brian Simison Info: In this Editor’s Choice article from the Molecular Phylogenetics … more »

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2015: The Year of Long Reads?

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Alex

We couldn’t help noticing that “long reads” kept popping up in presentations and posters at AGBT, and we certainly weren’t alone. Aside from longtime long-read provider Pacific Biosciences and synthetic long-read service Moleculo, acquired by Illumina in 2012, new companies … more »

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Still Buzzing about the Coffee Talk at PAG

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Alex

One of our favorite sessions at last week’s PAG meeting focused on a major sequencing effort to understand the coffee genome. The presentation, from scientists at Cenicafé (Colombia’s National Coffee Research Center) highlighted a new project designed to characterize elements … more »

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Large DNA in the Spotlight at PAG 2015

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Alex

This year’s PAG meeting featured the usual treats of interesting organisms being sequenced (koala!), reports from great plant and animal projects, and cool new technology approaches. While we found all of it fascinating, the theme of the meeting for us … more »

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Gearing Up for PAG 2015

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Alex

San Diego, here we come! We’re getting ready for the annual International Plant and Animal Genome conference, a stellar event that highlights some of the latest and greatest work happening in the agbio realm. PAG is the one conference we … more »

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Strides in Fighting Cancer, Plus BluePippin in Primetime

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Alex

It’s not every day you turn on 60 Minutes and see your own product on the screen. In last night’s episode, the news show profiled Los Angeles billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, whose array of companies is tackling everything from data storage … more »

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New Look at Complexity in the Human Genome Uses BluePippin for Sizing

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Alex

We’ve been fans of Evan Eichler’s since the earliest days of his work in segmental duplication and genome hotspots — so it’s great to see that he’s at it again. In this new Nature paper, Eichler and lead author Mark … more »

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