PolITiGenomics

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..

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..

Airline security

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 Posted in IT | No Comments »

Despite the fact that I was traveling when I wrote this, this post is not about air travel, but it is about security. One topic that continually comes up when ... Read more..

HiSeq 2000

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in IT, genomics | 6 Comments »

Today Illumina announced their new, high-throughput sequencing instrument, the HiSeq 2000. Sure, the name isn't that great, but the capabilities, if not game changing, are a significant step forward: the ... Read more..

Head in the clouds

Sunday, January 10th, 2010 Posted in IT, genomics | 2 Comments »

It seems that due to my recent post, Bioinformatics and cloud computing, I have been labeled a cloud skeptic. While I don't reject that label outright, I won't accept it ... Read more..

Bioinformatics and cloud computing

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 Posted in IT, genomics | 9 Comments »

From the Using clouds for parallel computations in systems biology workshop at the recent SC09 conference (Informatics Iron writeup) to last month's Genome Informatics meeting, everyone in bioinformatics is talking ... Read more..

What’s in an Illumina GA run directory?

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »

One of the main things that differentiates genomics from other endeavors that use a lot of disk space is that genomics file systems tend to have a lot of files ... Read more..

More than cells, more than bytes

Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in IT, genomics | 4 Comments »

In a recent New York Times article, Jimmy Lin from of the University of Maryland is quoted as saying, "Science these days has basically turned into a data-management problem." If ... Read more..

Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics table update

Monday, October 5th, 2009 Posted in IT, genomics | 2 Comments »

I have made some updates to the Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics table. Specifically, I have updated the numbers for 454 Ti, including paired-end information, and added information on the Illumina GA ... Read more..