PolITiGenomics

CC bioinformatics

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »

Thanks to the beauty of Creative Commons, the folks over at CLC bio have posted a version of my next-generation sequencing informatics table that adds a new metric, Yield per ... Read more..

1000 Genome SNPs released

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The 1000 Genomes Project has announced its initial release of SNP data from four of the individuals sequenced to high depth-of-coverage as part of the second pilot project (trios). ... Read more..

Using the next-generation sequencing statistics table

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »

Since posting the next-generation sequencing informatics statistics table I have received several requests asking if they could reproduce the table in one format or another. The answer is yes, as ... Read more..

Ensembl on Amazon

Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics | 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 IT, genomics | 2 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..

Keystone award for data center

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in IT | No Comments »

The Genome Center's new Data Center Building won the prestigious (I'm told) Keystone Award for Project of the Year from the St. Louis Association of General Contractors. This award is ... Read more..

The Technology Policy Smackdown

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in IT, politics | 1 Comment »

Tomorrow, 30 October 2008, at 12:30 EDT, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, representing Sen. McCain, and former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, representing Sen. Obama, will participate in a Technology Policy Smackdown hosted by ... Read more..

lsgmake-gap-0.9 released

Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »

About a year ago Tim Cutts from Sanger suggested I modify (he was being nice, improve is more accurate) lsgmake-gap to use LSF's job arrays rather than spawning a separate ... Read more..

Candidate stances on technology issues

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in IT, politics | No Comments »

Here is some more information on each candidate's stance on technology issues, what's new is Gov. Palin's stances derived from her record. You can review the stances of Sen. ... Read more..

Candidate technology platforms

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in IT, politics | 1 Comment »

Sen. McCain has recently released his technology platform. Sen. Obama has had his technology platform available for while. Sadly, Sen. McCain's proposals seem to favor moneyed, entrenched interests by ... Read more..