PolITiGenomics

Politics, Information Technology, and Genomics

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..

Download sequence data fast

Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

More and more data are being submitted to the NCBI Short Read Archive (SRA). So you may ask yourself, "How am I going to download all that data?" Well, as ... Read more..

Cancer Genomics Tools

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The folks in our Medical Genomics group have compiled a list of bioinformatics tools that are useful in the field of cancer genomics. The tools, mostly focused on next/second-generation sequence ... Read more..

OSCON lead up

Monday, July 13th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

Last week I did an interview with James Turner at O'Reilly about my upcoming talk at OSCON. It turns out that James is a bit of a genomics nut and ... Read more..

Illumina cluster needs

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

There is an interesting thread over at the Solexa Google Group about the IT infrastructure needed to support an Illumina Genome Analyzer (GA). The discussion focuses mostly on the cluster ... Read more..

Learning opportunities

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in IT | No Comments »

These links came to my attention this past weekend and I thought they might be of use to some of the readers here. First, you can access all course materials, ... Read more..

Great Expectations

Monday, June 15th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

A colleague of mine at The Genome Center pointed me to this O'Reilly Radar blog post about the talks at OSCON 2009 that Allison Randal, one of the organizers, considers ... Read more..

Video of St. Louis Perl Mongers talk

Monday, June 8th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

Those fine folks at St. Louis Perl Mongers have posted videos of my talk this past February. Looks like I am going to have to come up with a whole ... Read more..

OSCON Friends and Family discount

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

Do you want to attend OSCON this year but just realized you missed the early registration deadline? Have no fear, through a friends a family discount, you can get the ... Read more..

UR so beautiful to me

Sunday, May 31st, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

Thanks to the hard work of a whole host of developers at The Genome Center, especially Scott Smith and Tony Brummett, UR, the class framework and object-relational mapping (ORM) layer ... Read more..

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