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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ensembl 60 top tip #1
November 10th, 2010 by Richard Holland
Ensembl 60 came out yesterday. For those of you who are technical developers like us who do in-depth hacking of the source code, there’s two things that have changed which you need to be aware of: (this information is shamelessly cribbed from the ensembl-dev mailing list – if you need more details, email the Ensembl team…
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.
SSL and Tomcat
October 29th, 2010 by Richard Holland
A purely technical post this one, because it gave me such a headache this morning trying to figure it out and realising that nowhere was all this written down in one place. In a Java 6 + Tomcat 6 installation, installing an SSL certificate is usually as easy as uncommenting the appropriate Connector in server.xml…
Installing PlasMapper
October 13th, 2010 by Richard Holland
Yesterday I found a strange thing – a piece of open-source bioinformatics software that only needed minor tweaking before it would run. Top marks to the authors, although they might like to read the following to learn how they can make it absolutely perfect! The software in question is PlasMapper. It Just Works (TM) if…
Airplanes
October 8th, 2010 by Richard Holland
Working in a bioinformatics service group is like working in Air Traffic Control. You are constantly juggling hundreds of unique individual problems, all simultaneously up in the air and at different stages of completion. Some of them are in a holding stack of things to deal with later, whilst others are on the final approach…