PolITiGenomics

CSHL Biology of Genomes 2009

Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 3 Comments »

I should have posted this earlier, but things have been pretty busy. In any event, I will be presenting a poster next week at the Biology of Genomes meeting at ... Read more..

Data intensive science

Friday, March 6th, 2009 Posted in IT | No Comments »

There is an interesting article, Beyond the Data Deluge, on Science that discusses how various scientific disciplines are facing massive increases in data generation rates and how they are dealing ... Read more..

Ensembl on Amazon

Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog has an entry on using Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to host and access public data sets, including Ensembl release 51. The data are ... Read more..

Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics

Thursday, December 4th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | 4 Comments »

I have put together a table with a bunch of important metrics for the major next-generation sequencing platforms: Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics (there is also a link on the left-hand side ... Read more..

454 XLR-HD

Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | 8 Comments »

The next upgrade of the 454 FLX platform is called Titanium. The previous name gave a better indication of what the upgrade entails: XLR-HD which is short for eXtra ... Read more..

The latest and the greatest

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in IT | No Comments »

Intel has recently announced their designs for new, more powerful CPU and GPU chips. I am sure AMD will follow soon with some whiz bang designs. My question ... Read more..