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Meet forum members attending the CHI next gen sequencing conference in Providence, RI. Proceed to the registration area after the last session today(approximately 5:30pm) Sept 22, 2009. The group will walk over to the art space AS220 (www.AS220.org) on 115 Empire St, downtown Providence and reassemble at Taqueria Pacifica located there.
Also, the link for the conference is
user name: your email address
password: dtd99100
password case sensitive
Also recommended is Keith Robison's blog to be found beginning at
From Keith's excellent notes I am prompted to relate some of my light personal observations. While I actually touched a Polonator machine on display in the exhibit hall, it was not operational, i.e. not sequencing, and not engaging in any fluids transfer or plate wash so as to even simulate a sequencing cycle. Lots of light flashes, though. Lights flashing in the lecture hall from cameras intent on capturing slide data without permission were an unfortunate distraction from some of the talks I attended and not part of the terms of this meeting. A main speaker, in describing his competing version of a DNA sequencer, allowed that DNA molecules can become degraded in the presence of light. In an important talk by Robert Cook-Deegan (who chose to post slides from his talk), he reviewed the current regulatory framework for personal genome sequencing. Combined with a later round table discussion on "NGS Five Years Down the Road", I became increasingly uncomfortable with the current state of our concept of de-identification and have thus decided to re-evaluate my participation as a volunteer in the 1000 genomes project.
Also, the link for the conference is
user name: your email address
password: dtd99100
password case sensitive
Also recommended is Keith Robison's blog to be found beginning at
From Keith's excellent notes I am prompted to relate some of my light personal observations. While I actually touched a Polonator machine on display in the exhibit hall, it was not operational, i.e. not sequencing, and not engaging in any fluids transfer or plate wash so as to even simulate a sequencing cycle. Lots of light flashes, though. Lights flashing in the lecture hall from cameras intent on capturing slide data without permission were an unfortunate distraction from some of the talks I attended and not part of the terms of this meeting. A main speaker, in describing his competing version of a DNA sequencer, allowed that DNA molecules can become degraded in the presence of light. In an important talk by Robert Cook-Deegan (who chose to post slides from his talk), he reviewed the current regulatory framework for personal genome sequencing. Combined with a later round table discussion on "NGS Five Years Down the Road", I became increasingly uncomfortable with the current state of our concept of de-identification and have thus decided to re-evaluate my participation as a volunteer in the 1000 genomes project.
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