Category: genome-wide association studies
Genomic analysis technology provider Illumina has launched a new range of genotyping chips, designed to capture information about 4 million genetic variants scattered throughout the genome - four times more markers than the previous generation of chips. However, will more markers necessarily provide greater power for genome-wide association studies?
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Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 7:00 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: exome sequencing
Boutique personal genomics company Knome has launched a new product: the sequence of all of the protein-coding regions of your genome for a mere $24,500.
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Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 10:15 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: cshl
The second-last day of the Cold Spring Harbor Biology of Genomes meeting had vast amounts of genome sequence data, and some insight into ways of using it to make sense of human variation and disease.
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Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 6:31 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: cshl
The GenomeWeb crew have been doing a great job of covering the Biology of Genomes conference - for more detail on the 1000 Genomes Project presentation see here (or here if you happen to have a subscription to In Sequence),...
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Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 6:28 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: knome
An anonymous bidder has apparently purchased a complete genome sequence on eBay for the princely sum of $68,000.
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Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 11:12 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: cshl
The main message of the cancer genomics session at the Cold Spring Harbor Biology of Genomes meeting: vast amounts of sequence data is on the way, but we're still not equipped to take full advantage of the information it contains.
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Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 9:30 AM • 8 Comments •
