![]() It also features shows which purport to show individuals routinely engaged in felonies and in one case claiming to document a violent subculture in a pacifist religious community, the Amish. The network annually features Shark Week, that has been roundly criticized for its sensationalized portrayal of these magnificent creatures. Last night was the season five finale of the Gold Rush, which I confess is one of the few television programs that I have been watching routinely near their airing schedule (the other is The Simpsons, which is a father-son bonding experience). Now, writing in a blog mostly about science that you watch something on the Discovery Channel is a bit of a bold act, given its many panderings. One of these days I should wangle my way to that conference - not only would the genomics be fascinating, but China holds a special allure - or more specifically, Ailuropoda, for our household. Dale Yuzuki has a nice write-up (complete with a picture next to the box) based on attending the International Congress of Genomics 100 where it was unveiled. ![]() There's some ambiguity on questions such as the precise read length, though it is very short compared the the typical Illumina offerings. Two flowcells can be run at a time (apparently in sync with each other, unlike QIAGEN's long-delayed machine), with a small and large versions of the flowcells. ![]() ![]() Utilizing the ex-Complete Genomics ligation technology also used in the Revolocity system, the instrument appears to sport a price similar to the Illumina NextSeq but offers throughput somewhere running from a NextSeq up to the low end of a HiSeq. This weekend brought the formal launch of the BGISEQ-500 desktop sequencing instrument from BGI (though deliveries won't begin until early next year). ![]()
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