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Brain Cloud

Thursday, July 1st, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

Monya Baker recently published a Technology Feature in Nature Methods that discusses the use of cloud computing in genomics. I, along with several other people in the genome informatics ... Read more..

The cost of doing sequencing

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | 12 Comments »

Whenever you get asked about a recent genome publication or the latest sequencing technology, the conversation invariably turns to cost. It turns out, cost is a tricky thing. When people ... Read more..

Lightning strike

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

A previous cloud post, Puff piece, has gotten a bit of attention from Jason Stowe and Informatics Iron. While the Informatics Iron piece was positive, Mr. Stowe took issue with ... Read more..

Gathering cloud at XGen

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

If you are going to be at XGen next week and you are interested in cloud computing and its application to bioinformatics, be sure to stop and participate in the ... Read more..

Puff piece

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

Why should one be skeptical of all the information touting the wonders of cloud computing? This older, in-depth piece by Gartner, Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2009, lays out the ... 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..

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..

Airline security

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 Posted in IT | No Comments »

Despite the fact that I was traveling when I wrote this, this post is not about air travel, but it is about security. One topic that continually comes up when ... Read more..

HiSeq 2000

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | 9 Comments »

Today Illumina announced their new, high-throughput sequencing instrument, the HiSeq 2000. Sure, the name isn't that great, but the capabilities, if not game changing, are a significant step forward: the ... Read more..

Head in the clouds

Sunday, January 10th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | 2 Comments »

It seems that due to my recent post, Bioinformatics and cloud computing, I have been labeled a cloud skeptic. While I don't reject that label outright, I won't accept it ... Read more..