{"id":74894,"date":"2012-11-11T13:54:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T21:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=19033"},"modified":"2012-11-11T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T21:54:21","slug":"reflections-on-the-evolution-at-ashg-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/11\/reflections-on-the-evolution-at-ashg-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on the evolution at ASHG 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/11\/2012-11-09-12.171.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19038\" title=\"2012-11-09 12.17\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/11\/2012-11-09-12.171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a>As most readers know I was at ASHG 2012. I&#8217;m going to divide this post in half. First, the generalities of the meeting. And second, specific posters, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Generalities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iontorrent.com\/\">Life Technologies\/Ion Torrent<\/a> apparently hires d-bag bros to represent them at conferences. The poster people were fine, but the guys manning the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iontorrent.com\/ionbus\/\">Ion Torrent Bus<\/a> were total jackasses if they thought it would be funny\/amusing\/etc. Human resources acumen is not always a reflection of technological chops, but I sure don&#8217;t expect organizational competence if they (HR) thought it was smart to hire guys who thought (the d-bags)\u00a0it would be amusing to alienate a selection of conference goers at ASHG. Go Affy &amp; Illumina!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Speaking of sequencing, there were some young companies trying to pitch technologies which will solve the problem of lack of long reads. I&#8217;m hopeful, but after the Pacific Biosciences fiasco of the late 2000s, I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a point in putting hopes on any given firm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I walked the poster hall, read the titles, and at least skimmed all 3,000+ posters&#8217; abstracts. No surprise that genomics was all over the place. But perhaps a moderate &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/cZiWOBiid_M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most readers know I was at ASHG 2012. I&#8217;m going to divide this post in half. First, the generalities of the meeting. And second, specific posters, etc.<br \/>\nGeneralities:<br \/>\n&#8211; Life Technologies\/Ion Torrent apparently hires d-bag bros to represent them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2155,9,2136,2156,7,255,82,713,720,481,525,2157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-society-for-human-genetics","category-anthroplogy","category-ashg-2012","category-conference","category-evolution","category-evolutionary-genomics","category-genomics","category-human-evolutionary-genetics","category-human-evolutionary-genomics","category-human-genetics","category-human-genomics","category-ion-torrent-d-bags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74894"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74932,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74894\/revisions\/74932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}