PolITiGenomics

Archive for February, 2008

Lessig for Congress

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in IT, politics | No Comments »

Lawrence Lessig, Law professor at Stanford, is considering running for Congress. The Congressional seat for his district is open due to the unfortunate recent passing of Congressman Tom Lantos ... Read more..

Lustre bluster

Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in IT | No Comments »

What is Lustre? It is a cluster file system developed by Cluster File Systems, Inc., which was recently purchased by Sun. We do not have much experience with Lustre ... Read more..

NASty

Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in IT | 1 Comment »

We have a lot of disk storage at The Genome Center. Over 700 TB. We have a wide variety of storage in use. Different architectures: local, SAN, ... Read more..

Political programming language

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in politics | 2 Comments »

Since Super Tuesday, the campaigns have really started to settle into a consistent language that is interesting to parse. On the Republican side, Sen. John McCain, as the presumptive ... Read more..

Delegate math

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Sen. John McCain will be the Republican nominee. How is this the case even though McCain does not have the necessary delegates? While McCain has been able to ... Read more..

C. elegans revisited

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The Genome Center recently published the first paper (other centers' press releases notwithstanding) describing the sequencing of an entire animal genome with next-generation sequencing technology. We revisited our old ... Read more..

Sequencing genomes almost as a matter of course

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | 4 Comments »

Here is an article on genome sequencing, specifically using next-generation sequencers, for which I was interviewed. The article appeared in St. Louis Commerce Magazine so it is a bit ... Read more..

Large-scale LIMS

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

We recently published a paper in BMC Bioinformatics describing the laboratory information management system (LIMS) we have implemented at The Genome Center at Washington University. The title of the ... Read more..

Super Tuesday

Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Super Tuesday is tomorrow and my state, Missouri, will be participating. Missouri has open primaries. This means when you arrive at your polling place, you are asked whether ... Read more..

Candidates at Google

Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in IT, politics | No Comments »

Several of the candidates from both parties have given talks and answered questions at Google. If you are interested in their takes on technology (and some other issues), they ... Read more..