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Archive for June, 2008

What’s in an SRF?

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

I have written a bit about the NCBI Short Read Archive (SRA), its internals, and data transfer rates. Here is some information about the data format people are using to ... Read more..

A gift for the platypus enthusiast

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

If you are looking for the perfect gift for the platypus enthusiast in your life, consider a t-shirt with the following image. It is even up to date with the latest ... Read more..

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..

How fast?

Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

In a recent post, I spoke about the data format that will be used by the NCBI Short Read Archive (SRA), but storing the data is only part of the ... Read more..

How much?

Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The Genome Center recently published a paper entitled Aspects of coverage in medical DNA sequencing that develops a model for diploid sequence coverage using data from massively parallel sequencing platforms ... Read more..

When stars align

Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 2 Comments »

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..

Bridging the gap

Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »

It is not everyday that you get to hear a Nobel laureate or the former director of the NIH speak. It is even less frequent that you get to ... Read more..

454 XLR-HD

Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | 8 Comments »

The next upgrade of the 454 FLX platform is called Titanium. The previous name gave a better indication of what the upgrade entails: XLR-HD which is short for eXtra ... Read more..

More candidate stances on technology issues

Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in IT, politics | No Comments »

Similar to Ars Technica's list a couple weeks ago, PC Magazine is running a story about each presidential candidate's position on net neutrality, broadband availability, H-1B visas, intellectual property protection, ... Read more..

Estimating data center power

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in IT | No Comments »

On a mailing list I am on, someone posted this question. Here's a slightly off topic question. My company is looking at doing some engineering for a computer data center. ... Read more..