Tag Archives: BluePippin

PacBio User Meeting: Size Selection for Best Results

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Alex

Last month we got to attend PacBio’s user group meeting in Palo Alto, Calif. Sage Science co-sponsored the event, as we have in the past, because the PacBio community is doing some extraordinary work with size selection and we’re always … more »

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BluePippin Optimized for Illumina’s Moleculo Kit

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Alex

As Sage Science blog readers know, BluePippin is used throughout the genomics community for size-selecting larger fragments — we’ve gotten lots of attention for how well the tool performs with extremely long reads from the Pacific Biosciences sequencer, for example. … more »

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ASHG 2014: See You in San Diego!

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Alex

We can’t wait for the annual conference for the American Society of Human Genetics in San Diego this weekend! Five days of back-to-back scientific sessions, 6,500 attendees, countless parties — it’s a great opportunity to geek out on genomics. While … more »

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Illumina Workflow: Pippin for Improved Assembly Accuracy

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Alex

As we’ve seen throughout this blog series, Sage customers are conducting all sorts of great experiments pairing their Pippin size selection instruments with Illumina sequencers. Today we look at the final topic in this thread: boosting assembly accuracy with precise … more »

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New Resources: App Notes for Mate-Pair and Long-Read Sequencing with BluePippin

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Alex

We’ve got some new application notes to share that will be particularly handy for BluePippin customers running mate-pair libraries or sequencing with the Pacific Biosciences platform. Many thanks to our distribution partner, Nippon Genetics, for making this great information available … more »

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Single-molecule sequencing to track plasmid diversity of hospital-associated carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Alex

September 2014 Authors: Sean Conlan, Pamela J. Thomas, Clayton Deming, Morgan Park, Anna F. Lau, John P. Dekker, Evan S. Snitkin, Tyson A. Clark, Khai Luong, Yi Song, Yu-Chih Tsai, Matthew Boitano, Jyoti Dayal, Shelise Y. Brooks, Brian Schmidt, Alice … more »

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Modified paired end rapid library preparation protocol for 454 GS Junior 8 kb library preparation using Covaris g-tubes and BluePippin electrophoresis

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Alex

August 2014 Authors: Janet Hill, Bonnie Chaban, Jennifer Town, Matthew Links & Tim Dumonceaux Info: The scientists report a guide for 454 sample prep for paired-end reads. In their method, they eliminate the need for several expensive pieces of lab … more »

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NIH Scientists Report New Findings in Battle Against Antibiotic Resistance

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Alex

Antibiotic resistance is a scary concept, but at least there’s comfort in seeing so many great minds trying to solve the problem. Last week’s announcement that President Obama had issued an executive order for the development of a national plan … more »

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Evolution of hypervirulence by a MRSA clone through acquisition of a transposable element

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Alex

July 2014 Authors: Meredith A. Benson, Elizabeth A. Ohneck, Chanelle Ryan, Francis Alonzo III, Hannah Smith, Apurva Narechania, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Sarah W. Satola, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Robert Sebra, Gintaras Deikus, Bo Shopsin, Paul J. Planet and Victor J. Torres Info: Scientists … more »

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At PacBio’s UGM, Top-Tier Science and Praise for BluePippin

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Alex

It was a pleasure to co-sponsor the Pacific Biosciences user group meeting in Baltimore this week. Based on our participation at the same event last year, we had high expectations for it — but even these were surpassed by the … more »

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