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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 genomics, IT | 9 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 genomics, IT | 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 genomics, IT | 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 genomics, IT | 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 genomics, IT | 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 genomics, IT | 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..

Expansion

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in IT | No Comments »

The Genome Data Center has received a Gold LEED Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. This is in addition to the Keystone Award from the St. Louis Association of ... Read more..

OSCON in ten minutes

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

Gregg Pollack over at Envy Labs went around OSCON with a hand held video camera asking speakers to summarize their talks in 30 seconds. He has started posting the results ... Read more..

Download sequence data fast

Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

More and more data are being submitted to the NCBI Short Read Archive (SRA). So you may ask yourself, "How am I going to download all that data?" Well, as ... Read more..