No more MOORE's LAW!

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Cost of  sequencing is falling sharply. Original graph was adapted from National Human Genome Research Institute. You can find more information from this link.

There is also another recent post about effects of dropping sequencing prices was published on Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Blogs. Here is the link to that post and one more related article on WSJ, check this related article as well.

Link to Moore's Law

The genomic kite runner

Genome research can save lives!

Tarzan of the genomics jungle

Sometimes how bioinformaticians feel!

Squeezing your genome is cheaper than lemonade

Cost of  sequencing is falling sharply.  "Genome sequencing cheaper than lemonade" is not going to be surprising very soon.
For more info visit http://www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts/

Coming back from ICHG ASHG 2011 meeting

ASHG 2011 meeting was great, we both presented our posters and they were both well received.

On the way back home, we saw several highly expressed genes from the window of our plane.

Now, back to work!

off to ICHG/ASHG 2011 meeting

We will be presenting our work at ICHG/ASHG 2011 meeting in Montreal, Canada.
If you are  there, come see our posters.


Poster info for the Scientoonist (Dr. Alper Uzun)
Session Title: Prenatal and Perinatal Genetics   Session Type: Poster
Session Location: Exhibit Hall, Level 2, Convention Center   Session Time: Wed 10:00AM-7:00PM
Title: Runs of Homozygosity (ROH) analysis from GWAS data for Preterm Birth.




Poster info for his scientist wife (Dr. Ece Gamsiz)
Session Title: Genomics   Session Type: Poster
Session Location: Exhibit Hall, Level 2, Convention Center   Session Time: Fri 7:00AM-4:30PM
Title:  Novel Features of Neural Retina Transcriptome Revealed by High-throughput RNA-Sequencing.

Reassembling the genome while annotating

Thanks to Dr. Karyn Megy for the cartoon idea.

Shotgun sequencing

Info for non-science readers

In genetics, shotgun sequencing, also known as shotgun cloning, is a method used for sequencing long DNA strands. It is named by analogy with the rapidly-expanding, quasi-random firing pattern of a shotgun [Wikipedia].

Going Fishing...

Human Genetics & Genomics, Gordon Research Conference Newport, RI

I will attend "Human Genetics & Genomics" conference (Gordon Research Conference) at Newport, RI. 

Commonly known as the Newport Bridge connects the city of Newport on Aquidneck and the town of Jamestown on Connecticut island is a beatiful bridge especially in the summer time.

Every time I cross from the Newport Bridge, it is a joyful experience, watching the boats and the great blue sky. This time it is an inspiration for this cartoon too. 

Next week, because of the conference I will keep passing this bridge several times...I will try to take cartoonistic :) notes besides scientific notes which may be the source of new inspirational cartoons.

Genomic surprises

Human Genome Anniversary (10th year)

15 years ago, J.Craig Vender's team published the first complete genome sequence of a living species. It was a Haemophilus influenza. They used whole genome shotgun sequencing.

but fish can't lie...

Genome for sale

Is your genome published?

What about you? Did you publish your genome...?

Genome Jungle

This is a different type of jungle, and it is too complicated. We are trying to catch them, before they catch us in this jungle...