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dgmacarthur | May 13, 2010I've been quiet for the last two weeks, largely due to some feverish last-minute analysis in the lead-up to this year's Biology of Genomes meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where I spoke in (and co-chaired) the Genetics of Complex Traits session.
Long-term readers may recall that I sparked off a minor controversy at last year's meeting by writing several blog posts summarising presented work. While I deliberately steered clear of discussing unpublished or contentious work, basically focusing on the "big picture" messages emerging from the sessions rather than the technical details, I…
dgmacarthur | June 16, 2009Regular readers will be aware that my last attempt to report on the presentations at last month's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Biology of Genomes meeting resulted in some controversy, as well as some fruitful (if sometimes heated) discussion on the topic of conference blogging.
My next attempt will likely prove less divisive: I was kindly invited to write a meeting report by the journal Genome Medicine, and the full text of the article is now available free online. Given the brevity of the article and the scope of the journal I've focused my coverage on the presentations most relevant to…
dgmacarthur | June 4, 2009There has been some very interesting online discussion in a number of venues today about the topic of social media and scientific conferences. For those who missed my post yesterday, the discussion was sparked by an article in ScienceInsider reporting that Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory had produced a new policy on the use of social media at its conferences, which essentially states that attendees should ask permission from presenters before discussing their work online (it's worth noting that this policy is one that CSHL has long applied to affiliated reporters). The policy release was…
dgmacarthur | June 3, 2009I've just been pointed to a post on ScienceInsider that mentions my recent coverage (also on Twitter) of the Cold Spring Harbor Biology of Genomes meeting, and the resulting request for clarification from some professional science reporters:
In addition to reporting on genetic variation in a gene that is
active in fast muscle fibers at The Biology of Genomes meeting,
MacArthur wrote several on the spot blog posts covering advances discussed by the participants. Francis Collins also mentioned results on his new Web site.
A specialized Web-based news service, Genomeweb,
complained. To attend…
dgmacarthur | May 8, 2009It's difficult to distill down a meeting as data-rich as the Cold Spring Harbor Biology of Genomes meeting, but here's a first-pass attempt.
We're sequencing lots of peopleOne of the highlights of the meeting was the update on progress from the 1000 Genomes (1KG) Project. I was fortunate enough to have been given a sneak peek at the data at the 1KG satellite meeting earlier in the week (which you can download yourself if you're so inclined), but it was still impressive to see it all put together in the presentation today by Goncalo Abecasis.
Abecasis reported on the data emerging from the…
dgmacarthur | May 8, 2009The 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), and for a review of the panel discussion on genetic privacy (which I missed) see here.
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dgmacarthur | May 3, 2009I'll be spending the next few days at the Biology of Genomes meeting at Cold Spring Harbor, NY - one of the most awaited events on the genomics calendar. I plan to blog here about the major themes emerging from the meeting; you can also follow me on Twitter if you want shorter, punchier updates, and I've set up a FriendFeed group for more complex topics.
The meeting kicked off last night with a session on cancer genomics that gave a sense of the serious amounts of data currently being generated on the genetic origins of tumour development. Most of the work in this area has a fairly…