Omixon is exhibiting at ASHI 2013 in Chicago

05/11/2013

We are happy to announce that Omixon is exhibiting at the 39th annual meeting of the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI), 17-21 November, Chicago (Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers). ASHI is dedicated to advance the science and application of histocompatibility and immunogenetics; providing a forum for the exchange...

Omixon at the ASHG conference in Boston

26/10/2013

Omixon exhibited at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics that was held held at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC) in Boston, 22-26 October. The ASHG Annual Meeting is the largest human genetics meeting and exposition in the world. Here is a photo we took with Tim Hague, our...

Flashcard Fridays – Personalized medicine

25/10/2013

One of the “big things” we hope to achieve in the near future with the help of next generation sequencing (and other modern laboratory and diagnostic methods) is personalized medicine. If you”re not familiar with the term, check out this Wikipedia article. Very briefly, personalized medicine (or PM) includes everything...

Flashcard Fridays – Another one bites the dust – Roche 454 shut down

18/10/2013

After shutting down all their NGS research programmes in April, Roche announced this week that they”re discontinuing the 454 sequencers. Although there are a lot of 454 sequencers in use all around the world and production/support will not completely stop until 2016, based on how fast SOLiD disappeared, 454 won”t...

Upcoming webinar: HLA typing from whole exome and whole genome NGS data

14/10/2013

Broadcasting time & date: 6-7 PM CET, 31st October (Thursday) Join us in an online presentation about HLA typing, especially from whole exome and whole genome next generation sequencing data. REGISTER HERE In this webinar you will learn about: the importance of the HLA region in Pharmacogenomics and Disease Association...