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Collaboration with EMBL-EBI on Ensembl
November 22nd, 2010 by Richard Holland
Details of a collaboration between Eagle Genomics and EMBL Enterprise Management Technology Transfer GmbH (EMBLEM), acting on behalf of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s Bioinformatics Institute.
Changing MySQL DB parameter on Amazon RDS instance
November 16th, 2010 by Madhu Donepudi
MySQL instances on Amazon RDS service usually comes with default MySQL configuration settings, which might not always work for our needs. For example: we had to change max_allowed_packet DB parameter value to allow importing large DNA sets. This is a quick guide (using Amazon RDS command line toolkit) to change the MySQL DB parameter. Similar…
Ensembl 60 top tip #1
November 10th, 2010 by Richard Holland
Ensembl 60 came out yesterday. For those of you who are technical developers like us who do in-depth hacking of the source code, there's two things that have changed which you need to be aware of: (this information is shamelessly cribbed from the ensembl-dev mailing list – if you need more details, email the Ensembl team…
SaaS (Software as a Service) a blessing for bioinformatics users?
November 8th, 2010 by Madhu Donepudi
In these tough economic conditions more and more organisations are looking for ways to reduce their operational and maintenance costs. Businesses are turning towards SaaS (Software as a Service) model because they no longer have to worry about buying servers and other costs that add up to maintain any software service. In fact according to…
Manchester
November 4th, 2010 by Richard Holland
Did you know that in New Zealand, say the word ‘Manchester’ and everyone will think you’re talking about bedsheets? Nobody will even stop to think that you might actually be referring to a large city in the North of England (which also just happens to be the home of the University of Manchester, which is…