Guest:
Shawn Baker, Chief Scientific Officer, AllSeq
Bio and Contact Info
Listen (3:39) #AGBT14: to tweet or not to tweet
Listen (6:23) Illumina solidifies dominance
Listen (6:07) The Wizard of Oxford?
Listen (4:21) Qiagen with a killer workflow
Listen (2:21) Genapsys teases
Listen (1:07) Affy founder with a new technology
Listen (2:26) Aw shucks - a new reference genome
Listen (4:49) Where to from here?
Today we begin our annual sequencing series with Shawn Baker, Chief Scientific Officer at AllSeq.
In today's interview Shawn links highlights of last week's AGBT conference with the overall trends in the sequencing space. If last year was all about "long read" technology, Shawn says this year is about Illumina's total domination.
Yet there are newcomers. Qiagen is set to introduce a sequencer designed for clinical use. After picking up bioinformatics platforms, CLC Bio and Ingenuity last year, "Qiagen will have the workflow, start-to-finish, that no one else has these days," says Shawn.
The upstart Genapsys, funded by the Russian tech investor Yuri Milner, presented at AGBT with a teaser on their new sequencer with the footprint of an iPad. And Affymetrix founder, Steve Fodor, introduced a new company with a product that will integrate with NGS.
It's one of the hottest technologies in our business, and Shawn, who maintains an up-to-date Knowledge Bank at AllSeq.com, can talk about it like no one else. Presenting NGS 2014.
Today's Podcast is sponsored by Biotix - Makers of a Better Tip for Next Gen Sequencing. Find out how Biotix is setting a new standard in sample delivery here.
