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On the demise of gene patents: Can the NextGen industry finally look at the "naughty bits"?
October 30th, 2010 by Will Spooner
You _did_ know you were not supposed to analyse/disseminate all of it, right?
SSL and Tomcat
October 29th, 2010 by Richard Holland
A purely technical post this one, because it gave me such a headache this morning trying to figure it out and realising that nowhere was all this written down in one place. In a Java 6 + Tomcat 6 installation, installing an SSL certificate is usually as easy as uncommenting the appropriate Connector in server.xml…
UK Pharmacogenetics and Stratified Medicine Network 2010
October 28th, 2010 by Will Spooner
Multi-disciplinary collaboration and data sharing to be vital in the age of the “niche-buster”
Importing Ensembl into Amazon RDB
October 21st, 2010 by Richard Holland
Ensembl very kindly distributes their databases on Amazon as public datasets in a variety of forms. The most straightforward to use is the set of MySQL database files that can simply be copied into your MySQL server’s data directory and they will become instantly available. However, the most cloud-like way to use databases within Amazon…
Public or Private Cloud, or maybe Hybrid?
October 18th, 2010 by Nick James
Last week I noticed that a new world record had been set… and I’m afraid I’m not talking about the common wealth games, but rather about another advance in private cloud computing. The record was set ( or rather reset, as they already held it ) by Autonomy Corporation Plc, and the press release is…
European Conference on Computational Biology, Ghent ( ECCB10)
October 15th, 2010 by Nick James
Here is the poster I presented at the European Conference on Computational Biology in Ghent a few weeks ago. It describes our ensembl-based analysis system for predicting novel miRNA from next generation sequencing data. We will make the VM freely available for download in the near future. ECCB10_poster
Installing PlasMapper
October 13th, 2010 by Richard Holland
Yesterday I found a strange thing – a piece of open-source bioinformatics software that only needed minor tweaking before it would run. Top marks to the authors, although they might like to read the following to learn how they can make it absolutely perfect! The software in question is PlasMapper. It Just Works (TM) if…
Public personal genomes; open-access, open-source, open-ended?
October 12th, 2010 by Will Spooner
With more individuals engaging in molecular naturism, we ask what it’s all for?
Airplanes
October 8th, 2010 by Richard Holland
Working in a bioinformatics service group is like working in Air Traffic Control. You are constantly juggling hundreds of unique individual problems, all simultaneously up in the air and at different stages of completion. Some of them are in a holding stack of things to deal with later, whilst others are on the final approach…
Bio-IT World Europe 2010 slides
October 4th, 2010 by Richard Holland
Here are the slides I just presented at the Cloud Computing Workshop at Bio-IT World Europe 2010 in Hannover, Germany. Other speakers included Dave Powers from CycleComputing, and Glenn Proctor from the EBI, both of whom presented very interesting summaries of how they had been using cloud technology to improve the services that their organisations…