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Eagle are still hiring
June 10th, 2011 by Richard Holland
We've received a good number of applications for our currently advertised posts, but the more the merrier. If you're interested in working on the cutting edge of operational bioinformatics, and want to deploy open-source solutions to handle big data in commercial environments across biotech from pharma to crop science to biofuels and beyond, then we…
Comparative patient, comparative biomarker?
June 3rd, 2011 by Will Spooner
I attended an interesting event on 1st June: "Comparative and Translational Medicine" organised by One Nucleus at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). What is comparative and translational medicine? According to Prof. Dominic Wells (RVC), many therapies developed against traditional small animal disease models do not transfer well into humans because a lot of 'complexities' (environment,…
Google catches Dengue Fever
June 1st, 2011 by Richard Holland
Google announced that it has been using search data to track likely-looking dengue fever hotspots. It follows a simple logic – that in areas where an outbreak has occurred, people are more likely to search Google for advice on how to treat and manage it. Therefore a higher incidence of dengue-related search terms would indicate…