Beetlemania
JBS Haldane famously remarked that the Creator appears to be inordinately fond of beetles – with over 400,000 species described, they make up over a quarter… Read more »
Senior Editor at Genome Biology
Andrew obtained his PhD in molecular biology from the University of Dundee in 2005. He joined Genome Biology in 2009 after a post doctoral research position at the University of Sheffield investigating chromosome positioning during meiosis in yeast.
Latest posts by Andrew Cosgrove (see all)
- Exploring the history of smallpox vaccination with 19th Century American vaccination kits - 16th November 2020
- The fascination of plant genomes - 20th May 2019
- Genome Biology at Genome Informatics - 18th February 2019
Latest issue of Genome Biology
Following on from Naomi’s blog on the highlights of 2012 in Genome Biology, I’m going to expand on her mention of our cancer articles. We published… Read more »
Detecting low frequency mutations
In most genome sequencing applications, at a given locus there are at most two variants, present in equal proportions (ie the two alleles in a diploid… Read more »
Nurse! The screens!
37 years ago, Paul Nurse performed a screen in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe for mutants which divided at an abnormally small size. He identified… Read more »
GigaScience – a repository for large datasets
The recent explosion of genomics technology has revolutionized biology, but it is only really of use if people are able to analyze and use the resulting… Read more »
Genome Biology – highlights of the October issue
The October issue of Genome Biology is now available and, excitingly, it contains reports of three novel genome sequences. Much attention has already surrounded… Read more »
Genome Biology – lots of exciting software this month
The August issue of Genome Biology is now available on our website, and it’s a bumper issue this month. As well as several high-quality research articles… Read more »
Companion articles explore the kangaroo genome
Accompanying the publication of the tammar wallaby genome sequence in Genome Biology, BioMed Central also has a pouchful of companion articles in a… Read more »
Genome Biology editorial on the closure of NCBI's SRA
The US government-funded National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) has recently announced that it will be withdrawing funding for its Sequence Read… Read more »
Greg Petsko catches the world's attention
Ever since Genome Biology‘s inaugural issue 10 years ago, Greg Petsko (or his dogs) has contributed a monthly column in which he has given us his views on… Read more »