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2012 Best of Show Winners
April 27th, 2012 by Ivan Karabaliev
On 26th April Bio-IT World announced the winners of the Best of Show competition at the 2012 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston. The Best of Show competition recognizes new products available at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. Of the 34 new products, twelve finalists were named in four categories, and the judges viewed…
Crowdsourcing in bioinformatics
April 26th, 2012 by Richard Holland
Tuesday's announcement that James Bonfield won the Sequence Squeeze contest organised by the Pistoia Alliance was interesting for two reasons. The first reason is that although there was an overall winner, there was not an overall single best solution for the problem that Pistoia posed – the compression of FASTQ data. Rather James authored several…
Pistoia Alliance Awards US$15,000 Prize in Sequence Squeeze Competition
April 24th, 2012 by Richard Holland
James Bonfield of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Develops Best New Compression Algorithm for NGS. BOSTON, MA., April 23, 2012 – The Pistoia Alliance, a precompetitive alliance of life science companies, technology vendors, publishers, and academic groups, today announced the winner of the Pistoia Alliance Sequence Squeeze Competition. James Bonfield, a member of the sequence…
Eagle Genomics at BioIT World – Boston
April 23rd, 2012 by Ivan Karabaliev
On 24th April Eagle Genomics will be one of the three gene sequencing/technology consortia demonstrating cloud-based pilot platforms for delivering hosted NGS data services. The pilots were developed in response to an RFP issued last July by the Pistoia Alliance Sequence Services working group, which collected detailed requirements from five world-leading pharmaceutical companies. The gathering…
The Elements of Bioinformatics
April 18th, 2012 by Richard Holland
After being exhibited in public for the first time at our Second Eagle symposium, we have decided to put the full-size PDF of our bioinformatics periodic table online for everyone to download and take a look at. The table is now available online! Visit: http://elements.eaglegenomics.com/ Please visit the table's website above to download the PDFs….
Now closed: Eagle Genomics second annual survey of trends in bioinformatics
April 17th, 2012 by Ivan Karabaliev
Update: Survey is now closed. Thanks to all the participants. Results are available here. Eagle Genomics are conducting a second survey of current issues in operational bioinformatics. We build on the success of last year's survey which polled over 100 worldwide responses from both industry and academia. A report detailing the results of our first…
Presentations from Eagle Genomics second symposium
April 13th, 2012 by Ivan Karabaliev
The second Eagle symposium: "The Next 10 Years of Genome Content Management", held on Thursday 29th March 2012 at the Babraham Research Campus went really well. To all who came, thanks again for attending. We hope you found it interesting and also managed to grab a complimentary Eagle mug. All who weren't able to come,…
2nd Symposium success
April 6th, 2012 by Ivan Karabaliev
On 29th March Eagle Genomics had its 2nd annual symposium at the Babraham Research Campus conference centre. Abel Ureta Vidal, COO It was a brilliant sunny day during which a number of leading and very influential scientists, including Tim Hubbard from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, discussed the well known problem of how to handle…
SciBarCamb
April 2nd, 2012 by Ivan Karabaliev
A conference like no other, it's sometimes called the Cambridge science un-conference. SciBarCamb is a gathering of scientist, publishers, technologists and others with an interest in science. It will be held for 2 days (20th-21st April), first at Baroosh (a Cambridge bar) and then at the Cambridge Union. Eagle Genomics is one of the sponsors…