A picture is worth a thousand bugs – microBEnet: the microbiology of the Built Environment network. https://t.co/POlWR33W8v

4:45pm February 14th 2016 via Hootsuite

The chips are down for Moore’s law : Nature News https://t.co/NVJfD6jn8l

3:05pm February 14th 2016 via Hootsuite

RT @AnthonyBEarles: #SciLaughs Mr. Schrodinger? It's about your cat. I have good news or bad news.

1:45pm February 14th 2016 via Hootsuite

How Rare is a Rare Disease? | ASU Center for Evolution & Medicine https://t.co/QIn9J88Y5H

12:10pm February 14th 2016 via Hootsuite

CoreGenomics: #AGBT16 day 4: a new sequencing chemistry from Nanostring https://t.co/P2nIPPqwNl Neat stuff!

11:05am February 14th 2016 via Hootsuite

Disparity in Life Spans of the Rich and the Poor Is Growing - The New York Times https://t.co/OOsu23B3bL

9:45am February 14th 2016 via Hootsuite

Human Complex Trait Genetics in the 21st Century | Genetics https://t.co/savk8Z2G3K

7:31am February 14th 2016 via Hootsuite

RT @despair: The “Windows” section of every open-source project’s “how to compile and install” file: https://t.co/JRycpFvx4J

10:50pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

RT @FastCoExist: Watch your back, technology is on verge of putting many office jobs at risk https://t.co/wCjZ4vB2pJ https://t.co/gYNRhzLqpY

9:35pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Shenzhen, one of the most exciting startup hubs on the planet - WSJ https://t.co/zaQqwWFNMf

7:20pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

.@OmicsOmicsBlog Alas the date of #agbt17 wasn’t announced at the end of #AGBT16, will provide that feedback.

6:32pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite in reply to OmicsOmicsBlog

.@GenomeNathan Perhaps @pacbio can answer - Jonas spent time w/Bobby Sebra’s data to show Sequel equal, and then exon splice var’s diff?

5:49pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite in reply to GenomeNathan

RT @bioinfomagician: Despite not being at Marco Island this year, had a great time and #AGBT16 remains one of my favorite meetings. Look fo…

5:11pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

.@iGenomics I did make the correction. (Hey I'll just delete the incorrect tweet...)

4:23pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite in reply to iGenomics

Comment on poster session: many weren't up, could have been handled better. #AGBT16

4:22pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Precision Health: wanted to not squeeze out the genomic tech focus; still want to seed the Sept mtg, but a focus on medical apps #AGBT16

4:20pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

#AGBT16 AGBT Precision Health will continue the same theme, closer to the clinic. Sept 22-24 Committed for several years.

4:19pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Hill: 86% of indels (>50bp) variants were not previously observed. Shows large 130kb inversion prev unknown #AGBT16

4:10pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Hill: Added megabases of missing exon and regulatory data. #AGBT16

4:07pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Hill:Susie3 closes 94% of gorGor3 gaps. Added 164MB of euchromatic sequence. #AGBT16

4:07pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Hill: Detecting mis-assemblies: looking for spikes in depth of coverage. BAC and fosmids coverage is the back-up supporting info #AGBT16

4:06pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Hill: New assembly: an 800-fold improvement in contig size. 23Mb N50 scaffold, 9.6Mb contig N50. Contigs reduced from 464K to 16K #AGBT16

4:04pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Hill: (Oops, meant he credited @infoecho ) #AGBT16

4:03pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Hill: Credits @igenomics Using BACs to scaffold contigs. The 12 prior assembly method reviewed https://t.co/9UCu95kPle #AGBT16

4:03pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Hill: SMRT seq: error rate, long high-quality DNA needed. Goal to use PacBio. #AGBT16

4:01pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Hill: Problems: repetitive seq, SINEs and Alus, LINES, L1 and segmental duplications. Nice summary of Sanger and NGS #AGBT16

4:00pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Hill: (Thought he'd make a joke showing photo of Venter on the same slide as apes, but he didn't go there.) #AGBT16

3:59pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Hill: Showed great ape lineage tree and assemblies. Orangutan, gorilla, chimp, bonobo. #AGBT16

3:59pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Hill: He has no disclosures. But is happy if you'd like to add to the list. (Showed a blank screen, then a tumbleweed.) #AGBT16

3:58pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Christopher Hill (Univ Washington) Long-read sequence assembly of the gorilla genome #AGBT16

3:57pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Biezuner: Case study in AML, work via prior platform. Ref '12 https://t.co/SFpFkEYp4L Showed prelim data to recapitulate #AGBT16

3:53pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Biezuner: Validated by DU145 cell-line (prostate ca), 15 divisions per clone; single cells and regrown; every time sampled cells #AGBT16

3:48pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Biezuner: Shows video of Tecan liquid handling automation; also uses Echo550 acoustic liquidhandler (inverted 1536-well plate) 2nL #AGBT16

3:46pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Biezuner: Single cell WGA, use 1st PCR on Access-array. 2nd PCR do barcoding of 48 cells; pool and sequence. #AGBT16

3:45pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Biezuner:Current methods - not cost-effective nor scalable (WES at low AF) They use microsatellites and get cost to $40/cell #AGBT16

3:44pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Biezuner: Can reconstruct phylogenetic tree as mutations occur during development. #AGBT16

3:42pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Biezuner: '03 Sulston cell lineage and beyond in c elegans https://t.co/NuJ1m37Pv4 but in human? #AGBT16

3:41pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Biezuner: Humans are 10^13 cells. But in development - what happened from one zygote to adult. '13 Nat Rev https://t.co/kohbBBcOru #AGBT16

3:39pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Tamir Biezuner (Weizmann Institute of Science) A generic, cost-effective and scalable cell lineage analysis platform #AGBT16

3:37pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Korlach:Q:Roadmap for chem improvement? A:Sample prep same; chemistry will both be supported, improving both, analysis same #AGBT16

3:36pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Korlach:Q:6x loading but library amt the same? A:Vol is little more, amt dep on insert size. At work on improving loading still #AGBT16

3:35pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Korlach: Showing many isoforms ID's from Sequel not in RSII (NB - unclear to me why Sequel better in this application) #AGBT16

3:34pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Korlach: CRC line SW480 before/after siRNA for splicing machinery - cp RSII and Sequel - about 4x higher detect. Ex of exon skipping #AGBT16

3:33pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Korlach:Iso-seq - using Univ Human Ref RNA (UHRR) showing transcript isoform detection on Sequel. 3 genes, only 2 were det on RSII #AGBT16

3:32pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Korlach: Structural var in Glioblastoma (GBM) - also from workshop yesterday. #AGBT16 video here: https://t.co/6cG0ABtCdF

3:31pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite

Korlach: Challenging C9orf72 ALS G4C2 repeat mentioned yesterday - very difficult >900 bases of G's and C's (!) #AGBT16

3:29pm February 13th 2016 via Hootsuite