PolITiGenomics

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..

Me, in podcast form

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

I recently did an interview in advance of my talk at the XGen Congress next month in San Diego. The interview is about 14 minutes and discusses our work at ... 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..

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..

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..

VarScan published

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

VarScan, a tool developed at The Genome Center to detect variants in massively parallel sequence data has been published in Bioinformatics. VarScan can process both 454 and Solexa data of ... Read more..

UR explained

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Tony Brummet from The Genome Center gave a presentation earlier this week at the St. Louis Perl Mongers meeting on UR. The kind folks at StL.pm have posted the videos ... 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..