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Daniel MacArthur
I write about the genetic and evolutionary basis of human variation, and the companies trying to sell you information about your genome.
Daniel also blogs about personal genomics at Genomes Unzipped.
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Category: conference blogging
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is altering its social media policies on the fly to adapt to the growing demands of scientists for social media coverage - and has found a commendable middle ground between protecting sensitive data while giving scientists who want it a broader voice.
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Category: agbt
Two brand new players in next-generation sequencing technology revealed their cards at this week's Advances in Genome Biology and Technology meeting.
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Category: agbt
Pacific Biosciences unveiled its new third-generation sequencing platform in dramatic style at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology meeting.
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Category: agbt
Highlights from the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology meeting in Marco Island, Florida.
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Category: agbt
Sequencing provider Complete Genomics has announced that they have orders booked for 500 entire human genome sequences, just one year after the company launched in dramatic fashion at the 2009 AGBT meeting.
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Category: ashg2009
I'll be away for the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in Hawaii for most of the next couple of weeks - I'll be covering the conference primarily via Twitter, and you can follow all of the tweets from the...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 7:15 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: conference blogging
Scientist Cameron Neylon has put together a set of icons that conference presenters can use to indicate their position on live-blogging of presented data.
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Category: conference blogging
A Nature News article discusses the promise and the perils of live-blogging conference presentations.
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Category: conference blogging
An editorial in Nature clarifies the issues surrounding blogging of unpublished data in conference presentations, confirming that this will not be considered to break embargo on work considered for publication in the journal.
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Category: conference blogging
Readers who haven't seen it already may be interested in the post and subsequent discussion on conference blogging taking place on Dr Isis' blog.I feel that Dr Isis' post misrepresents my position in several ways (see this clarifying comment from...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 7:38 PM • 6 Comments •
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