Posted on behalf of Lauren ————————————————– Since the 2nd of June I have been in Guinea contributing to the Ebola response by sequencing the new cases on the MinION. Many of you will be familiar with the project going on and will have heard about Josh Quick coming out to Conakry to set it up.…

Mike Schatz has posted an interesting paper on Biorxiv on ‘The next 20 years of genome research‘. In it, he argues that in future ‘it will become less and less practical to transfer data into these [NCBI/EBI] archives as they exist today’ and that ‘In its place, we will see the rise of federated approaches…