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July 11, 2018 Tallying a cancer’s vast array of genetic changes
Research Highlight at Nature

July 11, 2018 Massive genome havoc in breast cancer is revealed
Article by Peter Tarr at CSHL

May 1, 2018 New Tools Highlight Long-Read Sequencing Platforms' Ability to Call Structural Variants
Article by Monica Heger for GenomeWeb

Feb 26, 2018 New method can more precisely determine when a cell has ‘cashed’ RNA ‘checks’ written by active genes
Article by Peter Tarr at CSHL

July 20, 2017 China's Direct Genomics Demonstrates Single-Molecule Sequencing of E. Coli
Article by Monica Heger for GenomeWeb

March 29, 2017 The Game-Changing Technique That Cracked the Zika-Mosquito Genome
Article by Ed Yong for The Atlantic

June 21, 2016 Bloomberg gift lures star professors to Johns Hopkins
Article by Scott Dance for The Baltimore Sun

May 26, 2016 Computational biologist Michael Schatz named 21st Bloomberg Professor at Johns Hopkins
Article by Julie Messersmith in JHU HUB

January 28, 2016 Frontiers of Sequencing: Putting Long Reads and Graph Assemblies to Work
Interview by Theral Timpson for MendelsPod

Oct 26, 2015 How do genome sequencing centers store such huge amounts of data
Article by Glenn Fleishman in MIT Technology Review

July 15, 2015 Enormous quantities may soon be called ‘genomical’
Article by Tina Hesmay Saey in Science News

July 9, 2015 Genetic data will take up more space than youtube in 10 years
Article by Alexandra Ossola in Popular Science

July 7, 2015 Genome researchers raise alarm over big data
Article by Erika Check Hayden in Nature

July 7, 2015 Sequencing the genome creates so much data we don’t know what to do with it
Article by Robert Gebelhoff in The Washington Post

June 3, 2015 Rebooting the human genome
Article by Antonio Regalado in MIT Technology Review

May 5, 2015 Pint-sized DNA sequencer impresses first users
Article by Erika Check Hayden in Nature

Jan 14, 2015 CSHL Scientists Sequence Yeast Genome with Oxford Nanopore MinIon
Article by Andrea Anderson in Genome Web

Sept 10, 2014 New algorithm detects DNA insertions and deletions
Article by Kate Yandell in SFARI News

Jan 14, 2014 Is the $1000 genome for real
Article by Erika Check Hayden in Nature

Oct 8, 2013 Our Bodies, Our Data
Article by Emily Singer in Quanta. Also in Wired

Oct 8, 2013 Transcriptome Assembly, No Reference Required!
Article by Jeffrey Perkel in Biocompare

May 29, 2013 Tepid showing for genomics X prize
Article by Erika Check Hayden in Nature

May 29, 2013 Overtaken by events
Article by Erika Check Hayden in Nature

April 5, 2013 Companies 'going long' generate sequencing buzz at Marco Island
Article by Michael Eisenstein in Nature Biotechnology

March 27, 2013 Selling your most personal item: you
Article by Daniela Hernandez in Wired Business

Feb 20, 2013 Wired magazine on big data challenges in genomics
Article by Daniela Hernandez in Wired Business

Feb 19, 2013 Gene sequencing leaves the laboratory
Article by Erika Check Hayden in Nature

Feb 2, 2013 Genomic Analysis, the Office Edition
Article by Anne Eisenberg in NY Times

Dec 15, 2012 Genome sequencing's big fix
Article by Edward Brydon in the CSHL Transcript

Nov 13, 2012 PacBio's XL Chemistry Increases Read Lengths and Throughput
Article by Monica Heger in GenomeWeb

Nov 8, 2012 The battle for sequencing supremacy
Article by Michael Eisenstein in Nature Biotechnology

May 1, 2012 Solving the genomic jigsaw puzzle
Article by Kate Yandell in ScienceLine

March 27, 2012 De novo genome assembly: what every biologist should know
Article by Monya Baker in Nature Methods

March 27, 2012 Faster sequencers, larger datasets, new challenges
Meeting Report by Chris Mason and Oliver Elemento on AGBT 2012

Feb. 16, 2012 DNA In the Cloud
Article and interview by Megan Erickson on Big Think

Jan. 24, 2012 CSHL-Led Team Develops De Novo Genome Assembly Method with Error-Corrected PacBio Reads
Article by Andrea Anderson in GenomeWeb's InSequence

Jan. 1, 2012 DNA Storage Sage
Article by Matthew Dublin in Genome Technology

Dec. 1, 2011 DNA Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data
Article by Andrew Pollack in the NY Times

Oct. 24, 2011 Moving beyond genome sequencing into personalized genomic medicine: biological and computing challenges
Meeting report by David Kristensen on Beyond the Genome

Dec. 9, 2010 Will Computers Crash Genomics?
Article by Elizabeth Pennisi in Science Magazine Special Issue on Data

Dec. 9, 2010 Report on the Beyond the Genome Conference
Article by Elisabeth Glaskell in BMC Blog

Dec. 1, 2010 Schatz selected as a Young Investigator of the Year
Article by Tracy Vence in Genome Technology

Nov 18, 2010 Do the Schimmy: Efficient Large-Scale Graph Analysis with Hadoop: Part 1 Part 2
Guest article with Jimmy Lin on Schimmy in the Cloudera Hadoop & Big Data Blog

June 29, 2010 Next-generation sequencing: adjusting to data overload
Article by Monya Baker in Nature Methods

Dec 8, 2009 Bioinformatics: SNPs while you wait
Research Highlight by Tanita Casci on Crossbow in Nature Reviews Genetics

Oct 15, 2009 Analyzing Human Genomes with Hadoop
Guest article on Crossbow in the Cloudera Hadoop & Big Data Blog

Sept 2009 Bioinformatics, Genomes, EC2, and Hadoop
Article by Jeff Barr and Deepak Singh for the Amazon Web Services Blog

April 2009 GPUs: Here to Stay
Article by Matthew Dublin in Genome Technology

Dec 21, 2007 UMD Team Creates GPU-Enabled Version of MUMmer to Tackle Next-Gen Sequence Data
Article by Bernadette Toner for GenomeWeb

Faculty of 1000 Reviews


Feb 15, 2013 Detecting novel associations in large data sets.
Reshef DN et al. (2011) Science. 334(6062):1518-24.

Dec 18, 2012 SOAPindel: Efficient identification of indels from short paired reads.
Li, S. et al. (2012) Genome Research. Nov 27.

Sept 26, 2012 Interdependence of cell growth and gene expression: origins and consequences.
Scott M et al. (2010) Science. 330(6007):1099-102

April 3, 2012 Combinatorial transcriptional control of the lactose operon of Escherichia coli.
Kuhlman T et al. (2007) PNAS. 104(14):6043-8

Feb 14, 2011 De novo assembly and genotyping of variants using colored de Bruijn graphs.
Iqbal Z et al. (2012) Nat Genet. 44(2):226-32

Sept 29, 2011 Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome..
Grabherr MG et al. (2011) Nature Biotechnology (7):644-52.

Sept 16, 2010 Genome-wide mapping and assembly of structural variant breakpoints in the mouse genome.
Quinlan AR, et al. (2010) Genome Res. 20(5):623-35

Dec 17, 2008 Efficient de novo assembly of bacterial genomes using low coverage short read sequencing.
Reinhardt JA, et al. (2009) Genome Res. 19:294-305


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