posts tagged ‘genomics’

Comparative patient, comparative biomarker?

June 3rd, 2011 by Will Spooner

I attended an interesting event on 1st June: "Comparative and Translational Medicine" organised by One Nucleus at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). What is comparative and translational medicine? According to Prof. Dominic Wells (RVC), many therapies developed against traditional small animal disease models do not transfer well into humans because a lot of 'complexities' (environment,…

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Symposium Abstract #8 – Matt Wood

March 12th, 2011 by Richard Holland

This is the last of the abstracts for talks being given at the 1st Eagle Genomics Symposium, "Provisioning Bioinformatics for the Next Decade – are we prepared?". Here we will hear from Matt Wood, Technology Evangelist at Amazon Web Services. AWS are also generously sponsoring this event by providing all delegates with US$50 free AWS…

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Symposium Abstract #7 – Mick Watson

March 5th, 2011 by Richard Holland

This is the seventh of the abstracts for talks being given at the 1st Eagle Genomics Symposium, "Provisioning Bioinformatics for the Next Decade – are we prepared?". Here we will hear from Mick Watson, Director at ARK Genomics. Mick will talk on the subject of "Meeting the global challenge of food security: bioinformatics in the…

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Symposium Abstract #6 – Ulrike Schoeck

February 25th, 2011 by Richard Holland

This is the sixth of the abstracts for talks being given at the 1st Eagle Genomics Symposium, "Provisioning Bioinformatics for the Next Decade – are we prepared?". Here we will hear from GATC Biotech's Director of Bioinformatics, Ulrike Schoeck. Ulrike will talk on the subject of "From Sanger Sequencing to Third Gen Sequencing – are…

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Eagle announces free bioinformatics audits

December 20th, 2010 by Richard Holland

Eagle Genomics is offering companies the chance to undertake a free audit of the bioinformatics used in their organisation. After the 1-hour meeting, Eagle will write a short report recommending ways to optimise the use of existing tools and suggesting areas in which extended use of bioinformatics tools might be of value. Companies wishing to…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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Ten Steps to Successfully Outsourcing Industrial Bioinformatics

November 9th, 2010 by Richard Holland

Eagle publishes a white paper to help make bioinformatics outsourcing a success.

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Pistoia Sequence Services

October 27th, 2010 by Richard Holland

I’ve been meaning to post this interesting interview with Nick Lynch for quite some time, in which he explains in detail what the Pistoia Alliance is all about. He also gives an outline of the Pistoia Sequence Services project, for which a number of groups are currently building proof-of-concept systems to demonstrate the various ways…

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