Debating PacBio: the #SMRTseq Tweet chat
In a recent Correspondence article published in Genome Biology, Rich Roberts, Mike Schatz and Mauricio Carneiro extolled the virtues of Pacific… Read more »
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- tRFs and the Argonautes: gene silencing from antiquity - 2nd October 2014
- Keeping up with the Jobses: the role of technology in reproducible research - 26th September 2014
- ‘You might as well patent oxygen’ – an unashamedly unbalanced take on Australia’s support for gene patents - 5th September 2014
Reflections on the DNA60IFX bioinformatics challenge
To commemorate 60 years of the double helix, Genome Biology ran a special 'DNA60IFX' bioinformatics challenge, inspired by the annual contests held at… Read more »
Myriad in the mire as SCOTUS rules against gene patents
Many years of legal argument culminated this week in a landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court. In Association for Molecular Pathology vs. Myriad Genetics, the… Read more »
John Rinn and Jernej Ule: Guest Editors for Genome Biology RBPome issue
Genome Biology is very pleased to announce the Guest Editors of our special issue on the RBPome as John Rinn and Jernej Ule. The issue will be published in… Read more »
Diamonds in the rough: DNA60 in Genome Biology
One of the most wonderful things about science, to my mind, is the way its fundamental principles are simultaneously both universal and personal. Quantum… Read more »
The Genome Biology special DNA60 Bioinformatics Challenge is nearly upon us: starts Monday!
Stand by for an important update on Genome Biology's highly anticipated, ultra-tricky, ultra-cool, *supreme* DNA60 Bioinformatics Challenge with a truly… Read more »
Camus enters the clinic: Genome Biology at Genomic Disorders 2013
It is not unusual per se for Nobel laureates to be quoted at genomics conferences, but it is perhaps a little out of the ordinary when the Nobel Prize in… Read more »
A special bioinformatics challenge for DNA Day – open to all
That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind – a quote infamous for two reasons: the first words uttered by a man on the moon, and the… Read more »
The RBPome: submissions open for a new Genome Biology special issue
Genome Biology is now inviting submissions for a special issue on "the RBPome". Advances in genomics have vastly improved our ability to investigate… Read more »
E unus pluribum (out of one person, many genomes): Genome Biology at the CSH Single Cell Analyses meeting
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow Eminem, 'Lose Yourself' Hip hop has-been Marshall Mathers III may or may not have been musing… Read more »