Flashcard Fridays – nextgenseq@nature.com

30/08/2013

Similarly to last week’s “virtual issue” created by Bioinformatics (Oxford Journals), the Nature Group also has a selection of NGS related articles. This collection is available on their webpage. The list of highlighted articles is updated twice a month, and you can also subscribe to a monthly newsletter.

Bioinformatics for Beginners – How to find scientific publications?

12/08/2013

Nowadays, finding scientific publications is not that big of a challenge any more. Honestly, just thinking about how people did this before computer based databases fills me with terror. Just imagine a few hundred pages long reference list. On paper. Now, imagine finding all articles on the list that contain...

Flashcard Fridays – The Neanderthal Genome Project

09/08/2013

I’ve already written a little bit about the 1000 Genomes project, so for today here is something that is somewhat similar, but possibly even more cool: the Neanderthal Genome Project (Ensembl, UCSC, official webpage of the project on the Max Planck Institute website).

Flashcard Fridays – Incidental findings in genetic testing

19/07/2013

As multi-gene NGS panels and whole exome and genome sequencing become more and more accessible, clinical diagnostic protocols based on these methods are being developed as well. As the result of these sequencing runs doesn”t only contain information about a low number of genes or a predefined set of variants,...

Flashcard Fridays – The 1000 Genomes Project

05/07/2013

After the “whole” genome sequence of Craig Venter and James Watson were published and newly developed sequencing technologies made the runtime and price of whole genome and whole exome sequencing acceptable, 1000 Genomes was the first public sequencing project that sequenced a high amount of individuals. The aim of the...