PolITiGenomics

Archive for November, 2009

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..

Corn genome sequenced published

Friday, November 20th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »

Chalk another one up for the corn lobby (damn those Iowa caucuses!), the maize genome has been published. More seriously, this maize genome reference sequence, much like the human genome ... Read more..

Eric Green new head of NHGRI

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Eric Green, head of NHGRI Intramural Research and the NHGRI Intramural Sequencing Center, has been named as the new National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Director. A Washington University in ... Read more..

For the people?

Friday, November 13th, 2009 Posted in politics | 1 Comment »

Why are Sens. Lieberman and Bayh threatening to filibuster health care bills if they contain a "public option"? Well, both Senators and their wives receive large sums of money from ... Read more..

Stimulating research

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | 2 Comments »

Yesterday on NPR there was a story that questioned the utility of using stimulus funds for long-term research. I am not sure exactly why they use the phrase "long-term" since ... Read more..