Making Sense of Next-Generation Sequencing Data
NextGenSeek’s link roundup presents interesting stories/happenings in Genomics to read this weekend. This week’s NextGenSeek stories are dominated by acquisition news in Genomics. The biggest surprising acquisition news is BGI’s acquisition of CompleteGenomics. Other interesting stories include Illumina’s Acquisition of BlueGnomics, Roche’s New Research facility at New York, and NPR’s three-part “$1000 genome” series. [Update] This [...]
This week’s Nature has a rather interesting paper showing a link between Father’s age and increase in de novo mutations and possibly disease association with autisim and schizophrenic. Kong et. al.’s study shows that on an average men can give rise to 2 de novo mutations per year. Increase in mutation rate is troublesome, as this has [...]
Complete Genomics, the Mountain View based human whole genome sequencing technology company has been in the news for both good and bad. On the bad side, Complete Genomics had to lay off its 55 employees to reduce spending. On the good side, Complete Genomics published a paper in Nature presenting Long Fragment Read (LFR) technology [...]
Complete Genomics, the Mountain View based whole genome human sequencing and analysis company, announced that it will be laying off 55 employees by 30th June. The lay off is pat of its effort to reduce spending and will be using Jefferies & Company, Inc. to explore strategic alternatives. In the press release announcing the restructuring, [...]
