archive for July, 2011

A new map to help understand plant gene function and evolution

July 29th, 2011 by Will Spooner

A paper published in Science today (29th July 2011), presents the first large-scale protein network map for a plant species. It is hoped that the map will help efforts to functionally characterise unknown proteins which account for 60% of all genes in Arabidopsis. Such characterisation is important to explain the molecular basis for phenotypic variation…

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Sponsoring: Cloud Computing, Looking Beyond the Cloud

July 18th, 2011 by Ivan Karabaliev

Eagle Genomics will be attending Bio-IT World Cloud Computing, a four days event in La Jolla, California, beginning 17th September 2011. We will also host and sponsor a short course on the second day titled: Cloud Computing and Genome Content management, Driving Translational Bioinformatics through the Next Decade. Abstract:  Cloud computing has seen a lot…

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Open-source security

July 12th, 2011 by Richard Holland

It sometimes happens in academic-backed open-source tools that what in any other industry would be glaring security holes are for some reason not considered important or worrisome. Simple problems such as the ability to upload and execute any arbitrary file to a server are easy to fix yet related exploits can be found on any…

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Open Innovation in R&D

July 1st, 2011 by Richard Holland

It seems that open innovation, or open source innovation, or open sourcing, depending on who you ask, is really catching on in the biotech industry. The idea is that instead of attempting to develop all ideas in-house, people are appointed with job titles such as Head of Open Innovation whose job it is to attract…

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