PolITiGenomics
Politics, Information Technology, and Genomics
About PolITiGenomics
PolITiGenomics is a blog by David Dooling about the confluence (and sometimes incongruence) of several of the most important topics surrounding the future of human health: genomics, information technology, and politics. Entries will cover topics including genomics research, next-generation sequencing technologies, informatics, computer hardware and software, free software, and politics.
Gathering cloud at XGen
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »
If you are going to be at XGen next week and you are interested in cloud computing and its application to bioinformatics, be sure to stop and participate in the ... Read more..New data center approved
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »
The Genome Center recently received word that its grant proposal for a data center was approved (St. Louis Business Journal). The $14.3 million grant is funded by National Center for ... Read more..Me, in podcast form
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »
I recently did an interview in advance of my talk at the XGen Congress next month in San Diego. The interview is about 14 minutes and discusses our work at ... Read more..The Pac’s out of the bag
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »
Most of you have probably already seen this, but Pacific Biosciences announced the institutions that will be getting their first ten prototype instruments (Bio-IT World, GenomeWeb, MarketWatch). The Genome Center ... Read more..Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics Update
Friday, February 19th, 2010 Posted in IT, genomics | 6 Comments »
I updated the Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics table a few weeks ago but forgot to mention it on the blog. The main update was the 50G configuration of the Illumina GA ... Read more..Puff piece
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 Posted in IT, genomics | 1 Comment »
Why should one be skeptical of all the information touting the wonders of cloud computing? This older, in-depth piece by Gartner, Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2009, lays out the ... Read more..Seq-o-matic ‘76
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »
Soon after Illumina announced its HiSeq 2000, it also announced the GA IIx's little brother, the GA IIe. The IIe will produce about half as much data as the IIx, ... Read more..Life finds a way
Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in genomics | 6 Comments »
Earlier this week Life Technologies announced the next revision of their SOLiD platform, SOLiD 4. I don't have all the details that I had for the Illumina HiSeq 2000, but ... Read more..Data Center in St. Louis Commerce Magazine
Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in IT, genomics | 1 Comment »
There is a story about regional data centers in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of St. Louis Commerce Magazine that includes a section on our Genome Data Center; the only regional ... Read more..NCI on PCGP
Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) posted a couple stories that discuss, directly and indirectly, the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project. The first, St. Jude, Washington University Launch Genome Project for Childhood ... Read more..All original content on this blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
