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Using Data Hubs in Ensembl to display your organisation’s genomic data
February 28th, 2013 by Nick James
Configuring Data Hubs in Ensembl Using data hubs in Ensembl is a great way to view preconfigured tracks displaying internal (or external) genomic data. There is no need for each user to upload their own data. Nor is there any need to do complex configuration within Ensembl. No Ensembl configuration is required and more data…
ENCODE: A beachcomber’s guide to the genome
September 11th, 2012 by Will Spooner
ENCODE press coverage focused on their ‘de-junking’ of the genome. But semantic wrangling apart, what will the ENCODE legacy be?
Ensembl and AWS: an Industrial Perspective
October 11th, 2011 by Will Spooner
The excellent AWS Case Study on Ensembl is of particular interest to us at Eagle, not only because Glenn Proctor has since joined us as Principal Consultant, but also because we also have extensive experience in deploying Ensembl on EC2. Our "Elastic Ensembl" was deployed in it's most sophisticated guise for Pistoia Sequence Services Phase…
A new map to help understand plant gene function and evolution
July 29th, 2011 by Will Spooner
A paper published in Science today (29th July 2011), presents the first large-scale protein network map for a plant species. It is hoped that the map will help efforts to functionally characterise unknown proteins which account for 60% of all genes in Arabidopsis. Such characterisation is important to explain the molecular basis for phenotypic variation…
What do Eagle pipelines do?
December 17th, 2010 by Richard Holland
Eagle Genomics can produce a vast array of genomic data analysis pipelines each tailored to your specific needs. Our pipeline design and construction service is as hands-on or as hands-off as you require – if you have a specific workflow in mind, we can code it, but if you have a general question you just…
As R&D Budgets Shrink and Data Grows, Bioinformatics Service Providers Could Gain in Popularity
December 14th, 2010 by Richard Holland
GenomeWeb published an article in BioInform this week giving a great case study of our relationship with local biotech firm Cytocell. It describes the state of the bioinformatics outsourcing market in general and gives examples of a number of firms active in the area. Several quotes from our recent white paper entitled "Ten Steps to Successfully…
Collaboration with EMBL-EBI on Ensembl
November 22nd, 2010 by Richard Holland
Details of a collaboration between Eagle Genomics and EMBL Enterprise Management Technology Transfer GmbH (EMBLEM), acting on behalf of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s Bioinformatics Institute.
Ensembl 60 top tip #1
November 10th, 2010 by Richard Holland
Ensembl 60 came out yesterday. For those of you who are technical developers like us who do in-depth hacking of the source code, there's two things that have changed which you need to be aware of: (this information is shamelessly cribbed from the ensembl-dev mailing list – if you need more details, email the Ensembl team…
Importing Ensembl into Amazon RDB
October 21st, 2010 by Richard Holland
Ensembl very kindly distributes their databases on Amazon as public datasets in a variety of forms. The most straightforward to use is the set of MySQL database files that can simply be copied into your MySQL server’s data directory and they will become instantly available. However, the most cloud-like way to use databases within Amazon…
DBCLS BioHackathon
September 17th, 2010 by Richard Holland
Eagle’s Richard Holland is an author on a bio-semantics paper.