PolITiGenomics

Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics Update

Friday, February 19th, 2010 Posted in genomics, IT | 6 Comments »

I updated the Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics table a few weeks ago but forgot to mention it on the blog. The main update was the 50G configuration of the Illumina GA ... Read more..

What’s in an Illumina GA run directory?

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

One of the main things that differentiates genomics from other endeavors that use a lot of disk space is that genomics file systems tend to have a lot of files ... Read more..

Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics table update

Monday, October 5th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 2 Comments »

I have made some updates to the Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics table. Specifically, I have updated the numbers for 454 Ti, including paired-end information, and added information on the Illumina GA ... Read more..

Expansion

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in IT | No Comments »

The Genome Data Center has received a Gold LEED Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. This is in addition to the Keystone Award from the St. Louis Association of ... Read more..

Data intensive science

Friday, March 6th, 2009 Posted in IT | No Comments »

There is an interesting article, Beyond the Data Deluge, on Science that discusses how various scientific disciplines are facing massive increases in data generation rates and how they are dealing ... Read more..

Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT |

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog has an entry on using Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to host and access public data sets, including Ensembl release 51. The data are ...

Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics

Thursday, December 4th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | 4 Comments »

I have put together a table with a bunch of important metrics for the major next-generation sequencing platforms: Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics (there is also a link on the left-hand side ... Read more..

Living data storage

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

Researchers in Japan have created the first DNA molecule made from entirely artificially created bases. While some are trying to manufacture artificial life by creating DNA molecules in the lab, ... Read more..

N Genomes

Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 6 Comments »

Earlier this week there were several meetings about the 1000 Genomes Project at Cold Spring Harbor Labs. The first meeting Monday morning was about data flow and data repositories. ... Read more..

Lustre bluster

Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in IT | No Comments »

What is Lustre? It is a cluster file system developed by Cluster File Systems, Inc., which was recently purchased by Sun. We do not have much experience with Lustre ... Read more..