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Running a business in the cloud – one year on
May 21st, 2013 by Glenn Proctor
This time last year I wrote a blog post entitled "Running a business in the cloud" describing how we at Eagle use various cloud services in the day-to-day running of our business. At the time that post was written, we hadn't been using the various services for long, so I thought that now would be…
Bioinformatics Workshop – From data deluge to delivering better crops
May 13th, 2013 by Richard Holland
Eagle and NIAB are co-hosting a plant bioinformatics workshop at NIAB on July 9th. Download the event flyer. About the workshop A one-day event especially targeted at the bio-based industries and researchers in the plant and food sciences sectors. The key objective is to understand the desired applications and existing barriers for managing, mining and utilising…
Experience vs. enthusiasm
May 7th, 2013 by Richard Holland
Recently the BGI was interviewed by a Nature blogger on the subject of why it has such a relatively youthful workforce. Jun Wang, the BGI's Executive Director, gave a surprising statistic that the average age of all his 4000 staff was just 26 years old, with the scientists averaging even less at 23 years old. The…
Bio-IT World 2013 Best of Show Winners
April 23rd, 2013 by Richard Holland
Earlier this month I was privileged to be asked to help judge the Best of Show winners at this year's Bio-IT World Expo in Boston. Whilst I can't give too much away about the judging process or the heated discussions that took place in the judge's chamber over lunch (although the sandwiches were very tasty…),…
Third Symposium podcast on highlights and future use of bioinformatics
April 15th, 2013 by Ivan Karabaliev
Kindly recorded by Madeleine Armstrong from Clinica Medtech Intelligence, during our Third Annual Symposium: "Will Big Data and Bigger Cuts Cripple Bioinformatics?" held on 21st March. Madeleine had telephone interviews with four delegates of the Symposium on their experience at the meeting and their ideas of the future of genome sequencing and bioinformatics, and her…
Third symposium presentations and more
April 8th, 2013 by Ivan Karabaliev
Eagle's third annual bioinformatics symposium was an exciting day that covered a lot of discussions about achieving greater efficiency in bioinformatics. We had 10 high profile speakers, good networking breaks, gifts for every delegate, a tasty lasagne lunch, a prize draw won by Rutger Vos, and a drinks reception at the end. Below are links…
GlusterFS vs a future Distributed Bioinformatics File System
March 28th, 2013 by Mutlu Dogruel
What is GlusterFS? The main theme of this year’s Eagle symposium was Big Data and its implications on Bioinformatics budgets. We have been witnessing a dramatic departure from conventional back-end storage practices recently with the rise of technologies such as Amazon S3 and Hadoop. Hadoop coerces us to think in terms of the “divide and conquer”…
Third symposium success
March 25th, 2013 by Richard Holland
Watermelons, apps, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and will big data and bigger cuts cripple bioinformatics? The Babraham Research Campus in Cambridge recently hosted the 3rd Eagle Bioinformatics Symposium, where experts from a range of scientific and technical industries gathered to hear about the latest developments in bioinformatics. The symposium is the only UK bioinformatics event that…
Elements of Bioinformatics table – now with Search!
March 19th, 2013 by Richard Holland
We released a new version of our Elements of Bioinformatics table this morning – otherwise known as the Periodic Table of Bioinformatics. There's been a few changes which we hope you'll like: Search tools by name – they will highlight in yellow. Filter tools by year – maybe we should call this the Bioinformatics Time…
Tenth abstract for Eagle’s third annual symposium
March 18th, 2013 by Ivan Karabaliev
The last abstract from the 2013 series. This week we share with you Victor Neduva's abstract. Victor will be representing GSK. His presentation title is: "High Throughput Sequencing in Pharma: Challenges and Solutions" Abstract: The rapid advances in high throughput sequencing present a remarkable opportunity for development of better medicines. However, these advances can also…