Industry Best Practice is another way of saying “Follow the Herd”

Capable of sequencing a billion base pairs per day this video from Helicos Biosciences shows the coolest piece of technology I’ve seen in a long while.

Just for comparison here is a description of the dominant Sanger sequencing method, which is how I used to get sequences back when I was still pretending to be a molecular biologist.

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I saw a slightly unusual delivery vehicle on my way to a meeting today.

Yes, that does say “Zero Emission Electric Vehicle” on the back. I’m pleasantly surprised to see things like this out and about.

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Our supercomputer Merlin is in the news again. A couple of weeks ago a gaggle of American journalists turned up, apparently on some sort of tour of South Wales (no really). I got pressed into service to help give the machine room tour.

Anyway pictures from Silicon.com

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