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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
Update: Go to this year's survey 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…
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…
Cognizant and Eagle Genomics to Work with Pistoia Alliance to Develop a Cloud-based Platform for Streamlining Sequence Services
April 12th, 2011 by Richard Holland
LONDON, April 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH), a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing services, and Eagle Genomics Ltd., a bioinformatics software company specializing in genomic data management and integration, today announced they are working with the Pistoia Alliance, Inc., a nonprofit, precompetitive alliance of life science companies and vendors,…
Survey preliminary results
April 8th, 2011 by Richard Holland
At the Eagle Genomics Symposium on Tuesday, our Technical Director Will Spooner presented preliminary results from the survey we ran in parallel with the registration process. Will is going to post a full analysis on this blog soon, but for now here are the key points he picked out as important during his summary at…
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…