Journal of Leisure 閒記

It is indeed very hard to keep a homepage up-to-date. I couldn't count how many homepages I have created and then given up . As a result, I decided to write a blog, because it is much more easier to manage so I presume I will update it more often. But keeping a not-so-updated blog just means no one is going to read it. So I also decided to write something here that describes my daily life best, just to keep it not-so-outdated :-)
It's been a hard day's night
And I've been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night
I should be sleeping like a log

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

New Way To Locate Big Genetic Variants

Finally published my paper. And its on Yale News too!

New Haven, Conn. — Yale University researchers, analyzing hundreds of billions of bits of genetic information, have collated and standardized 2,000 signposts that mark the boundaries of large blocks of human genomic variants.


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Citation: Lam et al. Nucleotide-resolution analysis of structural variants using BreakSeq and a breakpoint library. Nature Biotechnology. 2010 Jan;28(1):47-55. Epub 2009 Dec 27.

PubMed ID: 20037582

The Dolphin has arrived


My wife has finally come to the States. After separating for almost two years since our marriage, we are now experiencing the same 'honeymoon' period like the couple months after we just got married. It's sweet, it's life. Of course, I started to have a pretty 'up-scale' catering provided, as you can see from her new blog, Dolphin-icious: