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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…