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| === May 13, 2010 === | | == JANUARY 9, 2013 == |
| In order to increase the space available for equipment in the BioMicro Center, we are doing a little more remodeling. Please note the following changes:
| | Happy new years to everyone. A couple new things happening in BioMicro that we want to make everyone aware of. <BR><BR> |
| * The freezers have been relocated to the 304 hallway
| | First, this month begins a year long experiment in joining the BioMicro Center Informatics team and the KI Bioinformatics and Computing Core in to a single team. Our two teams have been collaborating for several years, sharing computational infrastructure, etc. but this year we will be formalizing and expanding the relationship with the goal of creating a more efficient unified core. Informatics analysis requests should still be sent to Charlie Whittaker or to myself as usual, but will be spread across the joint team based on expertise and on availability. You are also, as always, welcome to contact any of the informatics scientists directly. We hope this will allow us to reduce waiting times and to keep costs under control. <BR><BR> |
| * The RT-PCR machines will be moving to the 316 entry.
| | During the trial period (and hopefully going forward), pricing for informatics will be available in two flavors. First, for projects needing routine work, the subsidized rate will be $70/h for all CORE members (Biology, BE, KI, CEHS). For more involved projects, we have second option to purchase a “share” of the informatics team. This is an annual commitment for a fraction of an informaticist and will cost $960/mo for an average of 4h/week of informatics support. The monthly usage levels do not have to be exact and can be used in large blocks. The hours in the share can be used with any member of the team and the informaticist can vary from project to project. <BR><BR> |
| We hope this change will make accessing the [[BioMicroCenter:RTPCR|RT-PCR]] machines easier and will also create room for the [[http://openwetware.org/wiki/BioMicroCenter:Tecan_Freedom_Evo|new Tecan EVO 150]], scheduled to arrive in early June. Keep an eye on this page for future updates! | | Finally, and importantly, we will be changing the way we are storing Illumina sequencing data long term. In the past, we have saved the fastq, sam and bam files, along with the quality control data, in a zipped file. These zipped files now occupy over 50TB of storage which is limiting how we are able to handle new sequencing runs. To address this, we will be deleting the fastq and sam files from the archive and storing only the binary bam and quality control files. The fastq and sam files can be regenerated rapidly from the bam files using Picard and SamTools (though reads may not be in the same order). As always, we strongly encourage you to keep your own copy of the Illumina data and use our version only as a backup. We will begin this conversion next week. |
| | If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. |
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| === April 19, 2010 ===
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| Starting next month, the [http://mit.edu/ki/index.html Koch Institute] and the MIT BioMicro Center will be hosting a [http://www.nanostring.com/ Nanostring] nCounter system on a trial basis. The [http://www.nanostring.com/products/ncounter/ nCounter system] is a [http://www.nanostring.com/applications/technology/ single molecule visualizer] that quantitatively detects RNA and other nucleic acids using a hybridization system in a highly multiplex manner. The system uses color-coded molecular barcodes to digitally count nucleic acid molecules in solution. The system does not use enzymes for detecting the nucleic acids, allowing direct measurements of mRNA from a variety of input materials including degraded RNA or crude cell lysates.
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| The instruments will be located in the BioMicro Center and will be available to all members of the MIT community. We will be using this time to gauge the level of interest in the nCounter and whether it would be a viable system to purchase.
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| If you are interested in learning more, we will be hosting a seminar with [http://www.nanostring.com/ Nanostring] representatives on April 30th. The seminar will be at 11am in 68-181. Nanostring representatives will be available after the talk to discuss the instruments and specific applications. More information is in the [[Media:Nanostring_abstract.pdf|ABSTRACT]] for the talk.
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| === April 1, 2010 === | | == PUBLICATIONS == |
| | '''2013'''<BR><BR> |
| | '''2012'''<BR><BR> |
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| | #Paper1 pmid=22981692 <!-SL Boyer: Heart-> |
| | #Paper2 pmid=22847430 <!-SL Saeij-> |
| | #Paper3 pmid=22102570 <!-HD Chisholm-> |
| | </biblio> |
| | '''2011'''<BR><BR> |
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| | #Paper1 pmid=21892155 <!-SL Sur-> |
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| | '''2010'''<BR><BR> |
| | <biblio> |
| | #Paper1 pmid=20720539 <!-SL Young-> |
| | #Paper2 pmid=20581084 <!-SL Zwaka-> |
| | </biblio> |
| | '''2009'''<BR><BR> |
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| | #Paper1 pmid=19531355 <!-SL Amon-> |
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| Thanks to the generosity of a grant from the [http://www.moore.org/ Moore Foundation] to Dr. Penny Chisholm and ARRA funding to Dr. Chris Burge the BioMicro Center will be significantly expanding our sequencing capacity over the next 4-6 months. The first step of this expansion begins today with the addition of a new [http://www.illumina.com/systems/genome_analyzer_iix.ilmn GAIIx] and [http://www.illumina.com/systems/genome_analyzer/cbot.ilmn cBot] from Illumina. We are working hard to get ''"Ryland"'' and ''"Agustus Gloop"'' up and running and we hope to be able to shorten our queue times very soon!
| | == PREVIOUS NEWSLETTERS == |
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| === March 2010 ===
| | '''[[BioMicroCenter:News2012|2012]]'''<BR> |
| Due to an increase in the cost of Illumina reagents, increase in data file size, and the complexity of sample preps, we have had to increase, slightly, the cost of Illumina sequencing. These new rates will be effective on samples submitted after April 1, 2010. Samples already in the queue will use the current rates.
| | '''[[BioMicroCenter:News2011|2011]]'''<BR> |
| | | '''[[BioMicroCenter:News2010|2010]]''' |
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| ! ILLUMINA SEQUENCING
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| | Single End (36nt)
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| | inlcudes quality control (RT-PCR or BioAnalyzer), sequencing, genome alignment and data storage of Firecrest files for 2 yrs.
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| | Paired End (36+36nt)
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| Non-MIT rates are 30% higher for academic institutions and 50% highers for non-academic institutions. Priority is given to samples from CORE facilities.
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