archive for March, 2011

Bioinformatics symposium next week

March 30th, 2011 by Richard Holland

It doesn't seem possible but this time next week we'll be in the final hour of the Eagle Genomics symposium on the future of bioinformatics! After weeks of preparation we're very excited to be this close to the big day and we're sure it'll be a memorable and informative event for all those who will…

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Eagle content now free to all

March 29th, 2011 by Richard Holland

Following some heated in-house discussions about the evils of marketing and requiring registration before free content can be downloaded, Eagle Genomics have done the right thing and moved to a fully free and open access model for our specialist information and resources that were previously only available by registering for our 'members area'.  All Eagle…

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Amazon dedicated hardware

March 28th, 2011 by Richard Holland

This morning Amazon Web Services announced Dedicated Instances which are normal cloud instances but running on hardware that is exclusive for the customer. In other words, if you start up one of these, there is zero chance of someone else in another instance on the same machine hacking into yours by breaking through the hypervisor, because…

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Richard explains how Eagle Genomics is using the cloud

March 16th, 2011 by Ivan Karabaliev

Eagle's operational director Richard Holland will give a talk tomorrow as a AWS customer at the AWS Tech Summit for Developers and Architects, held in London at the Congress Centre. He will explain how Eagle Genomics has applied Amazon Web Services to its business model. The event will give you in-depth knowledge of key technical…

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Symposium Abstract #8 – Matt Wood

March 12th, 2011 by Richard Holland

This is the last of the abstracts for talks being given at the 1st Eagle Genomics Symposium, "Provisioning Bioinformatics for the Next Decade – are we prepared?". Here we will hear from Matt Wood, Technology Evangelist at Amazon Web Services. AWS are also generously sponsoring this event by providing all delegates with US$50 free AWS…

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Symposium Abstract #7 – Mick Watson

March 5th, 2011 by Richard Holland

This is the seventh of the abstracts for talks being given at the 1st Eagle Genomics Symposium, "Provisioning Bioinformatics for the Next Decade – are we prepared?". Here we will hear from Mick Watson, Director at ARK Genomics. Mick will talk on the subject of "Meeting the global challenge of food security: bioinformatics in the…

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