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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…
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…
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…
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 #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…
Symposium Abstract #3 – Nick Lynch
February 3rd, 2011 by Richard Holland
This is the third of the abstracts for talks being given at the 1st Eagle Genomics Symposium, "Provisioning Bioinformatics for the Next Decade – are we prepared?". This week we'll hear about the keynote presentation being given by AstraZeneca's Nick Lynch, President of the Pistoia Alliance. Nick's talk is entitled "The Pistoia Alliance: Pre-Competitive Collaborations…