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Eagle website user feedback
May 25th, 2011 by Richard Holland
The more Eagle-eyed amongst you (pun fully intended, no apologies!) may have noticed some changes to our website yesterday afternoon. Gone are a lot of the confusing industry profiles and specialist area descriptions, and gone are the complex over-detailed lists of products and services. Instead we have focused the refreshed pages on: Simplified definition of…
WordPress deleted user post recovery
May 25th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Handy hint for anyone who has accidentally deleted stuff in WordPress. It happens even to the best of us. In the midst of updating our website last night I inadvertently hit delete on an important user and lost all their related posts, including half the site pages. Not good. In a mild panic looking at…
A piece of history
May 25th, 2011 by Ivan Karabaliev
It is been almost a year since I joined Eagle Genomics as a marketing assistant. Our office was in the Babraham's Daly labs building. This was the first office I had worked in and was an old looking building. The first thing that I heard about it was that it was going to be demolished…
Eagle Genomics in Amazon AWS Case Study
May 23rd, 2011 by Madhu Donepudi
After becoming an Amazon Solution Provider, we are now featured in AWS's case study on using Amazon Cloud. The study highlights how we deploy secured and scalable bioinformatics applications on AWS. Related content Eagle becomes an Amazon Solution Provider
KEGG is no longer free
May 20th, 2011 by Richard Holland
April saw the well-respected KEGG project in Japan start moving away from its open-source/free-software roots and change to a user-pays system, even for academic users (except for a small portion which will remain free). This is a disappointing move but reading the plea from the KEGG authors explaining the rationale behind the move you cannot…
Amazon AWS EC2 changing instance type
May 18th, 2011 by Madhu Donepudi
If you haven't noticed, AWS recently announced a feature to change the type of instance on EBS backed instances. This feature is particularly useful if you want to add more computing power to an instance to perform certain task and then can scale it down once the task is done (it is all about using…
Elasticfox Firefox – AWS EC2 add-on for Firefox 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 and higher with t1.micro instance support
May 12th, 2011 by Madhu Donepudi
If you are a regular Amazon Web Services user, Elasticfox Firefox extension is a must to avoid the hassle of providing credentials on AWS console frequently. If you are not aware of this add-on, please do read the Elasticfox Getting Started Guide. However if you have or planning to upgrade to Firefox 4 or later,…
How to Convert S3-backed (instance store) AMI to EBS-backed AMI
May 6th, 2011 by Madhu Donepudi
In one of the recent Amazon Deep Dive Workshop, we were handed a cheat sheet to turn a Linux S3 instance to EBS backed instance. This is one of the simplest process I have come across. Create an EBS volume in the same availability zone as your S3 instance running in. Attach the volume to…