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Cloud will disrupt the outsourcing model
December 20th, 2011 by Will Spooner
As more enterprises adopt service-oriented architecture principals and practices, outsourcing may become an easier, more manageable option
Could genomics resurrect phytomedicine?
December 12th, 2011 by Will Spooner
It is only over the past 20 years that rational drug design has supplanted natural products as the primary source of candidates for drug discovery. But could recent advances in genomics technologies driven by next generation sequencing lead to a resurgence in phytomedicine?
The do’s and don’ts of specifying projects
December 12th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Some time ago Eagle Genomics published a white paper on outsourcing bioinformatics, which was well received at the time. I thought now would be a good time to update this by providing a list of things to watch out for when specifying a bioinformatics project – equally applicable when working with internal developers as to…
Genesis 2011 success
December 8th, 2011 by Ivan Karabaliev
On December the 1st Eagle Genomics attended Genesis, an annual event organized by One Nucleus. This was the 11th event and was Eagle's second time exhibiting there. Each Genesis gets better and better; this year the event included: Presentations Debates Networking International range of exhibitors This year was very successful for Eagle, we exhibited and…
Authentication confusion, and the need for open standards
December 2nd, 2011 by Glenn Proctor
I'm a proponent of multi-factor authentication for increased security when logging in to websites and other services. In my use-cases this typically involves the use of a hardware token which generates a one-time code, or an app on my phone that displays codes. Examples of the hardware approach are my bank's card-reader device, PayPal's Security…
Pistoia Alliance Sequence Squeeze Competition Announces Final Judge and First Competition Entry
December 2nd, 2011 by Richard Holland
The Pistoia Alliance, a precompetitive alliance of life science companies, technology vendors, publishers, and academic groups, announced that it has selected the final judge for its Sequence Squeeze Competition. The competition, which was launched in October, offers bioinformaticians, mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists the chance to win US$15,000 for developing the best new algorithm for compressing…