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Big Data Sharing
July 24th, 2012 by Richard Holland
BioTeam's Ari Berman wrote a guest blog over at Bio-IT World this month on the subject of sharing big data. Ari describes a transition over time from papers that themselves represented the complete set of data that needed to be shared, to the current trend for papers that present only the briefest summary and require…
Eagle becomes an Open PHACTS associate partner
July 19th, 2012 by Richard Holland
CAMBRIDGE, 18 JULY 2012 – The Open PHACTS consortium is pleased to announce an Associate Partner relationship with Eagle Genomics Ltd. (Eagle). Eagle intend to work with the consortium members to interface Open PHACTS with genomics tools (e.g. the Ensembl Browser) and workflows (e.g. eHive/Galaxy), and also facilitate the integration of data from major genomics…
Eagle attending NGS for Drug Developers
July 18th, 2012 by Ivan Karabaliev
Richard Holland, Eagle's CBO, will be travelling again spreading the word about Eagle Genomics and keeping up with the latest developments in the technology and best practices in our field. This time he will be attending NGS For Drug Developers on 31st July – 2nd August in the great city of Boston. This conference will…
Eagle sponsoring the 13th Bioinformatics Open Source Conference
July 11th, 2012 by Ivan Karabaliev
Eagle Genomics will be sponsoring the 13th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) to be held on 13th and 14th July 2012. This will be the third consecutive year that we have sponsored this event. The event, held in Long Beach CA is dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development…
A comparison of traditional vs. cloud HPC
July 10th, 2012 by Will Spooner
Strait of Magellan Oil Platforms. SpecMode CC BY-SA-3.0 One area where the cloud is receiving a lot of attention is in High Performance Compute (HPC). From a sheer number of cores perspective, the scalability of some platforms, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), has been proven. See Cycle Computing's 50,000 node virtual supercomputer for example. But HPC is…
Eagle and Rijk Zwaan accelerate plant trait prediction
July 2nd, 2012 by Richard Holland
Cambridge, 3rd July 2012 – Eagle Genomics, a leading bioinformatics company, and Rijk Zwaan, a breeder and producer of vegetable seeds, today announced the successful completion of an innovative research project, which will lead directly to Rijk Zwaan’s efforts to develop improved seeds for farmers and commercial producers of watermelon, cucumber and tomato. Whilst many…