PolITiGenomics
Politics, Information Technology, and Genomics
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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.
Age quod agis
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in IT | 2 Comments »
There has been a lot of studies recently that indicate that multitasking is harmful to productivity. In other words, there are significant switching costs when you mentally move from one ... Read more..When stars align
Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »
If you are at all familiar with the massively parallel sequencing platforms, you know that the raw data, the images, look a lot like star field pictures. Once you process ... Read more..Campaign seeking LAMP developer
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in IT, politics | No Comments »
If you are a politically active free software developer, this just might be the perfect job for you: the Obama campaign is looking for an experienced LAMP developer to work ... 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..AGBT 2008, part 2
Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »
Well, here is another quick hit from AGBT 2008. This year there were over 550 attendees and they still had to turn away over 200 people. No doubt ... Read more..Large-scale LIMS
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »
We recently published a paper in BMC Bioinformatics describing the laboratory information management system (LIMS) we have implemented at The Genome Center at Washington University. The title of the ... Read more..Platform independent
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »
When Java first hit the software development scene, the mantra was "write once, run anywhere". Well, Java, or more precisely the way computer science departments use Java, has received ... Read more..In defense of defensive programming
Friday, January 4th, 2008 Posted in IT | No Comments »
Someone emails me asking why a bioinformatics program (more specifically a short-read aligner) that works for someone else gives them a segmentation fault when they try to run it using ... Read more..All original content on this blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
