the latest eagle genomics news articles
The Pistoia Alliance Selects Eagle Genomics and Cycle Computing to Bolster Pharmaceutical R&D Practices
February 8th, 2012 by Richard Holland
New York – February 8, 2012 – Eagle Genomics and Cycle Computing today announced that they have jointly won a competitive bid by the Pistoia Alliance to support the development of a proof-of-concept (PoC) system to meet the future needs of pharmaceutical R&D IT. A four-month project, the Eagle Genomics & Cycle Computing proof-of-concept system…
Genesis 2011 success
December 8th, 2011 by Ivan Karabaliev
On December the 1st Eagle Genomics attended Genesis, an annual event organized by One Nucleus. This was the 11th event and was Eagle's second time exhibiting there. Each Genesis gets better and better; this year the event included: Presentations Debates Networking International range of exhibitors This year was very successful for Eagle, we exhibited and…
REGISTER For “The Next 10 Years of Genome Content Management”
October 13th, 2011 by Ivan Karabaliev
Save Thursday 29th March 2012 for Eagle Genomics' 2nd symposium! Summary The sequenced genomes of human and several other species have been with us for over 10 years, but debates still rage about the best practices for storing and analysing the ever-increasing volume of associated data. Such practices are defined as genome content management, i.e. the…
New CEO takes the lead at Eagle Genomics Ltd.
September 27th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Eagle Genomics Ltd., the leading open-source bioinformatics consultancy, this week welcomed its new Chief Executive, David Flanders, to lead the organisation from its Babraham head office near Cambridge. David brings more than 25 years' international experience in the bioinformatics and life sciences sector. He will strategically lead company growth as it capitalizes on the multi-sector…
And we’re hiring… again!
September 19th, 2011 by Richard Holland
It seems like the work just doesn't stop coming at Eagle, which means we need to keep on hiring new people to meet demand! Hot on the heels of our most recent recruitment round now follows an expanded search for more of the same – people who are multi-lingual (well, at least from a programming…
Genetics ‘cloud’ to create new opportunities for researchers and clinicians
September 8th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Gene sequencing and analysis could be dramatically speeded up, leading to patients receiving a quicker and more accurate diagnosis, thanks to research led by Eagle Genomics Ltd. Using cloud computing technology, the researchers have found they can slash the amount of time it takes to store the huge amounts of information produced when individual genes…
Grant awarded for Seabass genome
August 5th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Singapore's National Research Foundation announced this week that it was awarding a grant to a project entitled "Increasing Singapore’s Food Fish Production Through Aquaculture Genomics R&D" (Principal Investigator: Prof. Laszlo Orban, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL)). A key aspect of this grant is to sequence and assemble the genome of the Asian Seabass, a fish that is…
Full survey results
April 21st, 2011 by Richard Holland
Introduction As promised, and without further todo, here are the full results of the survey that Eagle Genomics ran prior to our 1st Annual Symposium on 5th April 2011 at Babraham, on the subject of "Provisioning Bioinformatics for the Next Decade: Are we prepared?". Let's go through the questions one by one to see how…
Eagle Genomics sponsors BOSC 2011
April 20th, 2011 by Richard Holland
CAMBRIDGE, 20th April 2010: Open Source software has flourished in the bioinformatics community for well over a decade. When the first BOSC (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference) was held in 2000, there were already a number of popular open source bioinformatics packages, and the number and range of these projects has increased dramatically since then. One…
Eagle Genomics symposium presentations
April 18th, 2011 by Ivan Karabaliev
Presentation slides from "Provisioning Bioinformatics for the Next Decade – are we prepared?" Eagle Genomics had its first symposium on the 5th April 2011, where 8 speakers from different fields of biotechnology sectors including the president of Pistoia Alliance, GSK and university of Manchester gave their views on provisioning bioinformatics for the coming years. The…