This week, I attended the Consumer Genomics Show (more so a “clinical genomics" show). In a session on Next Generation Sequencing led by five industry experts, a recurring observation was that, on the one hand, steady investments in sequencing technology was indeed delivering breathtaking value and driving down sequencing costs – bravo indeed and ...
Lincoln Stein lays out "The case for cloud computing in genome informatics" pretty nicely. The article describes the inflection point of sequencing technology. That is from 1990 to 2004 'base-pair/$' doubled every 19 months versus a doubling every 5 months since 2004 to present. There is no end in sight. Moving data to the ...
GenomeQuest could have targeted consumers, the largest available market for its technology. When we entered the market in 2004, the consumer wave was a distant vision, not even on the horizon. How did we survive? We targeted the smallest segment we could find: Information Scientists and Biotech Patent Lawyers. Why? My father was a old-school ...
Brad Perriello at MassDevice interviewed me and posted the article in their popular e-newsletter on the medical device industry. You can read the interview here. Brad caught me a little off guard when he asked me what I considered to be the ethical implications of individuals having access to their genomes. In a couple ...
An article by Nicholas Wade, science writer for the New York Times Disease Cause Is Pinpointed With Genome describes two research teams who have independently sequenced the entire genome of patients to find the exact genetic cause of their diseases. A fantastic research blog post at Genetic Future titled Disease hunting ...
Brilliant analytical overview of Next-Generation Sequencing machines compiled by Dan Koboldt at MassGenomics from the recent AGBT event in Marco Island. And another by Boonsri Dickinson at SmartPlanet The amazing race for the cheapest and fastest DNA machine.
Executives in the industry sometimes ask me if we are moving our software to the “cloud”. When I say we are already a cloud, then they wonder: “then what is Amazon offering?” Its helpful to think of the cloud as a layered architecture. The VC Bessemer provides a nice definition of this layering. Infrastructure-as-a-Service: Web-services ...
The title of the article on the new $50,000 ION Torrent machine by Kevin Davies at Bio-IT World says it all: "Watson meets Moore" as Ion Torrent Introduces Semiconductor Sequencing
Ryan McBride from Xconomy posted this nice article on GQ yesterday. After our discussion, he asked me if the "Google of Genomics" metaphor applied and I did not deny, thus the title: "GenomeQuest Wants to Be the Google of DNA Data Searches"
GenomeWeb reports on the HHS Advisory groups proposal to "limit the ability of holders of gene patents to keep others from using those genes for diagnostic and research purposes." The GLR recaps the evolution of the debate and the sponsors an interesting dialog in a recent post Up Next in Gene ...