Illumina Sequencing MRSA

Illumina, one of the 3 major next-gen sequencing platforms on the market is back in the news with this article by MIT's Technology Review.  The article explains the efforts made by the Sanger Institute to track and understand the evolution and spread of MRSA, the antibiotic-resistant form of Staphylococcus aureus by sequencing its genome using Illumina sequencers.  Unfortunately, there was no link to any actually published work, nor did they mention what sequencer they were using (probably a 'Genome Analyzer II'), but I will poke around the web and try to dig up some more info.  The article is very interesting, regardless.

A New Hope...

Readers,

Well, it was quite the drought, and even though the idea was to have a "rebuilding break", not much was accomplished.  The blog does have a new catchy name and I'll be adding some subject avatars shortly, but other than that, not much has changed.

Due a recent lack of home internet service, I will once again be posting mostly from my phone and work which will delay (even further) the aquisition of an actual domain name, as well.

So enjoy....

Attention

Ok. It's coming. A new blog soon! Stay tuned!