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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…
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…
Amazon AWS EC2 changing instance type
May 18th, 2011 by Madhu Donepudi
If you haven't noticed, AWS recently announced a feature to change the type of instance on EBS backed instances. This feature is particularly useful if you want to add more computing power to an instance to perform certain task and then can scale it down once the task is done (it is all about using…
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…
Symposium success!
April 7th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Well that went better than could be hoped for! The 1st Eagle Genomics Symposium ("Provisioning Bioinformatics For The Next Decade – Are We Prepared?") proceeded very smoothly with a wide variety of interesting talks and plenty of discussions and networking taking place during the breaks. The delegates came from across Europe and included a number…
VMware in the cloud
April 4th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Amazon currently permits VMware users to import their existing VMware images and convert them into AWS-compatible AMIs. There are only three caveats: (a) the machine must be shut down before importing, (b) it must have less than 1TB of virtual harddrive, and (c) it must be running Windows Server 2008. That last caveat is the…
Amazon dedicated hardware
March 28th, 2011 by Richard Holland
This morning Amazon Web Services announced Dedicated Instances which are normal cloud instances but running on hardware that is exclusive for the customer. In other words, if you start up one of these, there is zero chance of someone else in another instance on the same machine hacking into yours by breaking through the hypervisor, because…
Cloud Migration white paper published
March 24th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Eagle Genomics are proud to announce the publication of their latest Ten Steps white paper, this time on the subject of migrating existing systems to use the cloud. Cloud computing has attracted a lot of hyperbole since it became a trendy topic for IT managers to talk about. Companies frequently trumpet their cloud enabled services…
Bioinformatics Symposium less than 3 weeks away
March 18th, 2011 by Richard Holland
You've probably read a lot about the Eagle Genomics symposium being held on 5th April at Babraham, on the subject of "Provisioning Bioinformatics for the Next Decade: Are we Prepared?". A very healthy sized audience has already registered but we're keen to get as many bioinformaticians together on the day as possible in order to…
Richard explains how Eagle Genomics is using the cloud
March 16th, 2011 by Ivan Karabaliev
Eagle's operational director Richard Holland will give a talk tomorrow as a AWS customer at the AWS Tech Summit for Developers and Architects, held in London at the Congress Centre. He will explain how Eagle Genomics has applied Amazon Web Services to its business model. The event will give you in-depth knowledge of key technical…