Thank Goodness for Non-Traditional Models

Ewan Birney blogs about what he learned at Cold Spring Harbor's Biology of Genomes meeting last week. "As always, it was a great meeting," he writes. "Highlights for me was seeing the 1,000 genomes data starting to flow -- it is clear that the shift in technology is going to change the way we think about population genomics -- and for me, the best session was one on 'non-traditional models' -- Dogs, Horses and Cows, where the ability to do cost effective genotyping has completely revolutionised this field." He also includes more detailed looks at what his EBI teammates presented, such as Velvet and the Enredo-Pecan-Ortheus pipeline at Ensembl.