cracker headlines
 
      A young company, we are passing through initial-development milestones. We expect to report publicly about them in a near future. Please do not hesitate to contact us if interested.  
     
  December 22, 2009  
     In Sequence Briefing on Cracker  
    Julia Karow, staff reporter in charge of the Sequencing section at Genome Web, reviews the team and its technology.  
     
  November 30, 2009  
     BioTechniques Talks about Cracker  
    Drs. C.-F. Chiou and H. Renauld are interviewed by Erin Podolak from BioTechniques.  
     
  November 17, 2009  
     Cracker Announced as Participant in the X Prize Competition  
   

The X Prize Foundation officially announces cracker, led by Dr. Chung-Fan Chiou, as a participant to the Archon X Prize for Genomics. The first team to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days time will win $10 million. Details on the team and approach can be found here.

 
 
(Note: Cracker has evolved from an ITRI funded group into a new, independent company since the publications of the above reports.)
Events
 
13th International Congress on Twin Studies (Seoul, Korea, June 4-7)
Encouraging Development of Therapeutics for Neglected Diseases
  (Philadelphia, USA, June 16-17)
Human Variation: Cause and Consequence (Heidelberg, Germany, June 20-23)
Metabolomics 2010 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 27-July 1)
GRC Single Molecule Approaches to Biology (Lucca, Italy, June 27-July 2)
 
The impact of high-throughput genomics on our world
 
Studying the mycobiome
Genomics to rescue the Tasmanian devil
The Giant Panda genome
Emergent Salmonella exposed
 
Personal-medicine in the news
 
Reading out metabolic traits
Heritable factors for obesity
Cracking the cancer genetic code
The origin of Miller syndrome disclosed