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Eagle Interviewed on Open Source
October 28th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Two interviews with Eagle Genomics leaders were published this week. At FLOSS for Science, Richard Holland talked about the trials and tribulations of setting up an open source scientific software company and how Eagle has overcome the challenges on the way. Read the article here: http://www.floss4science.com/interview-eagle-genomics/ At Open Access Success Stories, Will Spooner talks about Eagle's…
US$10,000 Big Science challenge from CycleCompute
October 26th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Our friends at CycleComputing are offering a prize of compute time on a 30,000-core CycleCloud installation on Amazon worth US$10,000 to a single researcher with the best idea for applying such massive computational power to a question that seems unanswerable. (We hope, however, that the answer does not turn out to be 42.) There's not…
Pistoia Alliance Spurs Development of Next-Generation Sequencing Data Compression Algorithms with US$15,000 Prize
October 25th, 2011 by Richard Holland
The Pistoia Alliance, a precompetitive alliance of life science companies, technology vendors, publishers, and academic groups, has launched the Pistoia Alliance Sequence Squeeze Competition to find the best algorithm for compressing next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. The winning entrant will receive a prize of US$15,000, which will be awarded by a prestigious judging panel that includes…
Ensembl and AWS: an Industrial Perspective
October 11th, 2011 by Will Spooner
The excellent AWS Case Study on Ensembl is of particular interest to us at Eagle, not only because Glenn Proctor has since joined us as Principal Consultant, but also because we also have extensive experience in deploying Ensembl on EC2. Our "Elastic Ensembl" was deployed in it's most sophisticated guise for Pistoia Sequence Services Phase…