I know absolutely nothing about their technology (they’ve been playing things much closer to their chests than Pacific Biosystems), but they just announced they’d start delivering their machines by the end of this year and that they’ll reveal the principles of their new technology in a talk on Saturday. Marco Island, Florida (where the Advances [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sequencing’
Map of the Places That Get the First PacBio Sequencers
Map of the first ten places that will get pacific biosystems sequencing machines. The first “3rd generation” sequencing technology to arrive on the market (and one biologists like me have been drooling over for more than a year)
New SOLiD Sequencers, and the ever dropping cost of sequencing
New DNA sequencers from SOLiD, keeping up the competition with Illumina, and driving the cost of sequencing even lower. Comparing the dropping cost of sequencing to the increasing speed of computers.
Even Faster Sequencing
Just five years ago in 2005, the state of the art technology for sequencing genomes was Sanger sequencing, the same basic technology that had been used by biologists for decades, although the sequencers of 2005 were the result of decades of refinement of the basic technique. Five years later in 2010, the newest state of [...]
The Cost of the Turkey Genome
Just to give you a sense of how fast technology is advancing: Sequencing the maize genome took four years and 30 million dollars. Today Virginia Tech announced the University of Minnesota and themselves had received a $908,000 grant to sequence the Turkey genome in two years. I don’t know how big or complex the turkey [...]
The Domestication of Maize
Twenty thousand years ago, not a single crop species existed in its current form. Almost* every bite of food you eat today is the result huge amounts of human artificial selection, both unconsciously and intentionally by farmers and plant breeders. Sometimes the obvious changes are minor, for example between wild and domesticated strawberries: Clearly one [...]
Patrick Schnable on the Maize Genome
Let me know if you have any trouble with the embedded video. The embedding code from ISU doesn’t seem to play well with wordpress. I’ve got several posts on the maize genome coming out scheduled to go up later today. Living on the west coast (not to mention having a circadian clock that seems convinced [...]