Monthly Archives: May 2015

New Mendelspod Series Kicks Off with Arizona’s Rod Wing

We’re proud to be sponsoring a new series of podcasts from the great folks at Mendelspod, who have been producing informative interviews with interesting scientists for several years now. We don’t have anything to do with the podcasts themselves, but … more »

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Gearing Up for ASMS 2015

We can’t wait for ASMS, the annual meeting of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. This year, the mega event will be held in St. Louis from May 31st to June 4th and our team will be on the scene … more »

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Come for the Beignets, Stay for the Science

We’re already looking forward to the 115th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. It’ll be held in New Orleans this year from May 30th to June 2nd, giving us a great excuse to stop by Café du Monde … more »

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At Einstein Med School, ‘Extremely Reproducible’ Pippin Platforms Save Time and Money

In the genetics department at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Research Assistant Professor Alex Maslov is working to understand structural variants associated with aging and cancer. Using human and mouse cells, he deploys whole genome sequencing to make these links. … more »

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Sequence data for Clostridium autoethanogenum using three generations of sequencing technologies

April 2015 Authors: Sagar M Utturkar, Dawn M Klingeman, José M Bruno-Barcena, Mari S Chinn, Amy M Grunden, Michael Köpke & Steven D Brown Info: Researchers from the University of Tennessee, North Carolina State University, and other organizations present data … more »

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Double-digest RAD sequencing using Ion Proton semiconductor platform (ddRADseq-ion) with nonmodel organisms

April 2015 Authors: Hans Recknagel, Arne Jacobs, Pawel Herzyk, Kathryn R Elmer Info: In this Molecular Ecology Resources paper, researchers from the University of Glasgow describe a protocol and adapters they developed for double-digest RAD sequencing on the Ion Torrent … more »

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