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Archive for January, 2008

Genome data center

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | 2 Comments »

The Genome Center (where I work) is building a new data center. With the avalanche of data that the next-generation sequencers, we need a significant expansion in computing and ... Read more..

Web server primaries

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in IT, politics | 1 Comment »

Not that you should choose your presidential candidate on what type of web server they run, but in case you are interested. Democrats www.hillaryclinton.com - Microsoft Windows www.barackobama.com - GNU/Linux I wonder if it ... Read more..

TechCrunch presidential endorsements

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in IT, politics | No Comments »

The TechCruch blog has posted the results of its Tech President Primary and endorsed a candidate from each party. On the Democratic side, Barack Obama won the primary and ... Read more..

Platform independent

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | 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..

454 Informatics

Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | 4 Comments »

I recently received this request. We've taken on 454 sequencing and would like information about the amount and type of bioinformatics support needed to help investigators with their data. Our ... Read more..

Post-debate coverage

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

I watched the Democratic debate in Las Vegas this evening. It was a good debate after they got down to real issues and policy matters. I think all ... Read more..

You’ve got a plumbing problem

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Last week I attended the TCGA Data Portal Use Case Workshop. TCGA stands for The Cancer Genome Atlas and is an ambitious project to more fully characterize and understand ... Read more..

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Today is the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday. Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be observed this coming Monday, January 21, 2008. It seems he is ... Read more..

It didn’t take long

Monday, January 7th, 2008 Posted in politics | 1 Comment »

In a previous post I wondered how long it would take for the character assassinations to begin. Well, it didn't take long. The ABC debates on Tuesday got ... 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..