Highlight from day 1 of the 2015 Advances in Genome Biology and Technology Conference: http://blog.genohub.com/agbt-2015-summary-of-day-1/ Highlights from day 2: http://blog.genohub.com/agbt-2015-summary-of-day-2/

~ 11% of NCBI's Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) projects between 2012 and 2013 contain at least >= 100 reads / million reads mapping to mycoplasma's …

Day 1 of the Sequencing, Finishing and Analysis Meeting kicked off with a great series of lectures. We've highlighted some of the talks for those …

Demand for the analysis of next generation sequencing data is growing at a fast rate. To help accommodate this demand, [Genohub.com][1] now allows researchers to …

Standalone program to visualize enrichment patterns of DNA-interacting proteins at functionally important regions based on next-generation sequencing data: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24735413 --[Genohub][1] [1]: http://www.genohub.com

<p>Despite the new NextSeq 500, looks like it&#39;s still better to use MiSeq for low diversity samples:</p> <p>http://blog.genohub.com/nextseq-hiseq-or-miseq-for-low-diversity-sequencing/</p> <p>Any other thoughts on mitigating intensity issues …

<p>Interesting paper examines transcriptome reassembly and determines it is sensitive to RNA fragmentation technique. Concludes that Zn mediated fragmentation provides a better transcript ID compared …

<p>Have there been any studies comparing fragmentation bias introduced in NGS data ? There are <a href='http://blog.genohub.com/fragmentation-of-dna-rna-for-next-gen-sequencing-library-prep/'>6 main DNA / RNA fragmentation methods used for …

AGBT 2014 started off strong with talks on single cell sequencing, next gen diagnostics in cancer medicine and GRCh38. A twitter/blog embargo threw a wrench …

I'd like to hear your experience seeking out a NGS service provider or bioinformatician. What's most painful? Or are you happy? http://blog.genohub.com/matchmaking-for-the-life-scientist/ -- [Genohub][1] [1]: …