PolITiGenomics

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..

Living data storage

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics | No Comments »

Researchers in Japan have created the first DNA molecule made from entirely artificially created bases. While some are trying to manufacture artificial life by creating DNA molecules in the lab, ... Read more..

N Genomes

Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 5 Comments »

Earlier this week there were several meetings about the 1000 Genomes Project at Cold Spring Harbor Labs. The first meeting Monday morning was about data flow and data repositories. ... Read more..

Lustre bluster

Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in IT | No Comments »

What is Lustre? It is a cluster file system developed by Cluster File Systems, Inc., which was recently purchased by Sun. We do not have much experience with Lustre ... Read more..

NASty

Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in IT | 1 Comment »

We have a lot of disk storage at The Genome Center. Over 700 TB. We have a wide variety of storage in use. Different architectures: local, SAN, ... Read more..