Somewhat vicious, somewhat funny

[BBoy]

http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/blog/2012/02/a-new-sequencing-technology-enters-the-ring-shtseqtm/

Wow, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed. The references to PacBio and their latest claims are covered up in a paper-thin veil.

[adaptivegenome]

"Cleaning up SHT™ with Illumina data"

lol

[nickloman]

It's a satire or a spoof of sequencing marketing & hype - timed with the AGBT meeting - not a specific dig at any one company! I thought it was brilliant.

[maubp]

It's a satire or a spoof of sequencing marketing & hype - timed with the AGBT meeting - not a specific dig at any one company! I thought it was brilliant.

I would have expected you to like it - It is posted under your name on the blog, so I assumed you wrote it.

Edit: On further reading, sent to you by Neil on Twitter?

[nickloman]

I didn't write it, as I said I was sent it by Neil Hall!

[BBoy]

It's a satire or a spoof of sequencing marketing & hype - timed with the AGBT meeting - not a specific dig at any one company! I thought it was brilliant.

Not sure I buy this. The all-consonant acronyms, the references to gold sponsors at AGBT (on the Twitter feed), the 99.999% consensus accuracy helped along by Illumina reads --- there are just too many coincidences. It is very funny but whoever wrote it definitely had PACB in mind

[nickloman]

Not sure I buy this. The all-consonant acronyms, the references to gold sponsors at AGBT (on the Twitter feed), the 99.999% consensus accuracy helped along by Illumina reads --- there are just too many coincidences. It is very funny but whoever wrote it definitely had PACB in mind

Maybe a little bit

[maubp]

It does rhyme with PacBio, but the salesmanship reminds me of another company instead

[Elcannibal]

Frankly, the level of BS marketing involved in ALL sequencing machine provider is beyond me... When I see how much it actually costs society (purchase, red tape, infrastructure, qualification, service, usability and life span) to get one long read, I ask myself if the Talibans have won...

[Geneus]

Frankly, the level of BS marketing involved in ALL sequencing machine provider is beyond me... When I see how much it actually costs society (purchase, red tape, infrastructure, qualification, service, usability and life span) to get one long read, I ask myself if the Talibans have won...

Chill out...the fun has just begun.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Oxford-Nanopore-introduces-bw-4175413504.html?x=0

http://omicsomics.blogspot.com/2012/02/oxford-nanopore-doesnt-disappoint.html#more

[maubp]

Let's leave this thread alone here in the "PacBio" sub-forum - there's a thread over in "the pipeline" sub-forum on Oxford Nanopore,
http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthr...ewpost&t=17298