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WikiLIMS and Toxicogenomics
Stephen Edwards was kind enough to provide his talk slides from his “Wiki-Based Data Management System for Toxicogenomics” presentation at the 2010 Bio-IT-World Conference & Expo. Click on the graphic below to download the PDF formatted version of his presentation.
Updated presentation: BioTeam WikiLIMS Overview
Updated for Feb. 2010, here is the latest overview presentation deck for BioTeam WikiLIMS. Click on the image for the presentation file. Direct link.
Updated WikiLIMS Presentation
Download the 11-14-2009 version of the WikiLIMS Overview presentation by clicking on the graphic below:
Storage for Next-Gen Sequencing
Presenter slides from the 2009 Storage for Next-Generation Sequencing Workshop(s)
Cloud Computing for Life Sciences Webinar
Cloud Computing for Life Sciences – Tuesday October 27 2009 Session dates: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Starting time: 1:00 pm, GMT -04:00, Eastern Daylight Time (New York) Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Session Fee: $295 (Note: BioTeam did not realize that there would be a charge for this event when we agreed to participate) OVERVIEW [...]
Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis
On September 20th 2009, BioTeam will be hosting a pre-conference workshop on Data Management & Storage issues for Next-Gen sequencing shops in conjunction with the 2009 “Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis” conference hosted by CHI: More info: http://www.healthtech.com/sda?c=6910
C&EN on Pharma Cloud Computing
Chemical & Engineering News covers emerging use of the cloud by pharma companies, BioTeam gets mentioned along with a quote from Chris Dagdigian. Excerpt: “IT MAY NO LONGER BE FAIR to characterize large pharmaceutical firms as late adopters of information technology (IT). Having spent the past five years catching up to other industries in the [...]
Antibody Docking in the Amazon Cloud
Adam Kraut has written up his experiences with a Pfizer protein docking experiment on Amazon AWS in a recent BioIT World column: “… The new docking architecture at Pfizer employs nearly the entire suite of services offered by Amazon. A huge array of Rosetta workers can be spun up on EC2 by a single protein [...]
Latest WikiLIMS overview presentation
The latest overview presentation regarding WikiLIMS can be downloaded from this link (or click the image above).
Mike Cariaso talks “technology without borders”
Mike Cariaso’s presentation on a recent trip to South East Asia where he spent time teaching internet and programming skills in rural villages
Instead of spending 20 minutes to format an ext3 volume every time you need one, you could just snapshot a ...
Let me add a few remarks about Ext3 as well.
The reason we usually recommend Ext3 instead of XFS is because ...
I'm using these slides to tune SGE 6.2 @ European Space Agency, thanks a lot! 
Great post.
Can you also try our native scale out NFS protocol? Next 3.1 release of Gluster will include it ...
So far my mental architecture is shaping up to be something like this:
Use the ephemeral disks for scratch space and ...
This shows that on-demand HPC still has a ways to go, it is very unfortunate that only ext3 is supported ...
We have had sge62u3 working fine in a 10.5 cluster using cron to startup the sge_execd process on clients. Trying ...
Instead of increasing your disk image size, you could have decreased the memory by writing a very short C program ...