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Apache projects around Hadoop in a nutshell
June 28th, 2012 by Mutlu Dogruel
You might be a little surprised to know that Apache Software Foundation hosts over 100 top-level software projects, but you will certainly be surprised to know that there are at least a dozen Hadoop related Apache projects, if you haven’t come across them yet. Today I will mention briefly about 4 projects in the Hadoop…
Sequence Squeeze cheque handed over
June 18th, 2012 by Richard Holland
Earlier this week, James Bonfield officially received his prize for winning the Pistoia Alliance Sequence Squeeze contest, which was administered by Eagle. The cheque was handed over by Pistoia Alliance executive director John Wise and Eagle's CEO David Flanders at a short ceremony held at James' workplace, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, at Hinxton, near…
Hadoop in scaling up biological data analysis projects
June 13th, 2012 by Mutlu Dogruel
In the Bioinformatics world, we are all familiar with such phrases: “as sequence entries in the major genomic databases currently rise exponentially”, “the explosion in volume of genomic data”, “as biological databases grow larger”, “dealing with all this ever-increasing information”… We come across such phraseology in journal articles, presentations etc. for a reason. The community…
Annual Bioinformatics Survey Results
June 6th, 2012 by Richard Holland
Eagle recently completed its second annual bioinformatics survey, intended to monitor trends in the industry and predict its future direction. Congratulations to Oliver Deusch who was randomly selected from all the responses to win the Amazon voucher prize draw. Responses were good this year, 108 in total, from a good range of bioinformaticians working in…