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Cloud Computing Security – not risky for every system
February 21st, 2011 by Madhu Donepudi
While cloud computing is one of the top current trends in the IT industry, pharmaceutical sector (where the sensitive data is traditionally being protected behind corporate firewalls) has concerns about cloud security. Keeping aside the law and jurisdiction where data is held, if a SaaS (Software as a Service) vendor had considered/evaluated the risks of…
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…
Changing MySQL DB parameter on Amazon RDS instance
November 16th, 2010 by Madhu Donepudi
MySQL instances on Amazon RDS service usually comes with default MySQL configuration settings, which might not always work for our needs. For example: we had to change max_allowed_packet DB parameter value to allow importing large DNA sets. This is a quick guide (using Amazon RDS command line toolkit) to change the MySQL DB parameter. Similar…
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…