PolITiGenomics

Archive for January, 2010

Life finds a way

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in genomics | 7 Comments »

Earlier this week Life Technologies announced the next revision of their SOLiD platform, SOLiD 4. I don't have all the details that I had for the Illumina HiSeq 2000, but ... Read more..

Oligarch rage

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

So much for populist rage. We better be careful to not anger Wall Street tycoons. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c Read more..

Data Center in St. Louis Commerce Magazine

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

There is a story about regional data centers in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of St. Louis Commerce Magazine that includes a section on our Genome Data Center; the only regional ... Read more..

NCI on PCGP

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) posted a couple stories that discuss, directly and indirectly, the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project. The first, St. Jude, Washington University Launch Genome Project for Childhood ... Read more..

Bad Influence

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

I'm not talking about Rob Lowe, but about the corrupting influence of money in politics. Watch the talk Lawrence Lessig recently gave at the conservative Cato Institute to learn how ... Read more..

Hard lessons

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in politics | 2 Comments »

What should the Democrats learn from their fall from grace over the past year? There are a lot of opinions as to what exactly the recent losses mean and what ... Read more..

Pediatric Cancer Genome Project

Monday, January 25th, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Today, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announced a joint Pediatric Cancer Genome Project. This project aims to sequence tumor and normal ... Read more..

Cloudy with a chance of sunshine

Monday, January 25th, 2010 Posted in IT | No Comments »

As stated in previous posts (Bioinformatics and cloud computing and Head in the clouds), I don't think that cloud computing wins the cost competition with local resources. However, there are ... Read more..

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Thief

Monday, January 25th, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Independent Lens has an interesting piece about copyright, music, and the nature of creativity entitled Copyright Criminals. If you get a chance to watch it, you should. Read more..

Stewart as Olbermann

Sunday, January 24th, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

WELL DONE, SIR! The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c Read more..