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Guest:
Shawn Baker, Curator, BlueSEQ Bio and Contact Info
Listen (1:00) Curator at BlueSEQ
Listen (6:40) Roche's move on Illumina
Listen (4:44) Big news at JP Morgan 2012
Listen (1:47) Is speed really the issue?
Listen (2:35) Breakdown of market share
Listen (8:52) Advantages, disadvantages among major sequencers
Listen (9:58) Emerging Companies
Listen (1:17) AGBT
As we close out our series Sequencing and Genomic Medicine, we invited Shawn Baker, an advisor for sequencing technology at mendelspod, to join us and give an overview of the industry. He is the Curator for BlueSEQ's next generation sequencing Knowledge Bank. Having received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis, Shawn started his career as a Research Scientist at Illumina when it was a 15 person startup. Shawn is the founder of BiotechCareerCenter.com and a blogger at biotechmarketer.blogspot.com.
