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WikiLIMS - Next-Gen Data Management

Excerpt from Mike Cariaso’s recent column in Bio IT World:
“…We’re now capturing data electronically with no human intervention required. A single device doing this isn’t particularly compelling, but two or more can be. The wiki becomes an electronic lab notebook written entirely by your machines. Because it can be viewed and edited with a [...]

16Apr2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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BioInform writeup on IT limitations in next-gen sequencing shops

Excerpt: “As more and more labs adopt next-generation sequencing technology, they are finding that the new instruments are straining their current informatics infrastructures — a challenge the groups are trying to meet with a wide range of different solutions.”

30Mar2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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BioInform writeup on WikiLIMS

Excerpt: “Bioinformatics consulting firm the BioTeam is turning to the same collaborative software that underlies
Wikipedia and numerous other web-based resources to help address the formidable data-management
challenges of next-generation sequencing systems.”

30Mar2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Summer 2008 Grid Engine Training Workshops

We are please to announce the start of a new regular open-enrollment training workshop series aimed at making users and cluster administrators more experienced, more comfortable and more productive with Sun Grid Engine.
Starting first in the Boston area and expanding elsewhere if demand allows we are offering the following Grid Engine training workshops:
1-Day Grid Engine [...]

22Mar2008 | blogadmin | 3 comments | Continued
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Apple OS X 10.5 launchd scripts for Grid Engine

William Van Etten has produced new scripts for the Apple OS X “Launchd” framework used by Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” systems. Moving forward it seems that Apple eventually intends to phase out the SystemStarter methods for starting/stopping daemons and services in favor of the newer launchd mechanisms.
A Wiki entry over at http://gridengine.info explains [...]

4Mar2008 | blogadmin | 1 comment | Continued
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BioTeam Names Bioinformatics Expert Brian Osborne Principal Investigator

BOSTON, MA, February 28, 2008 – BioTeam, Inc. today announced that Brian Osborne, PhD is joining the high-performance consulting practice, as of March 1, 2008.
As Principal Investigator, Dr. Osborne will work with clients to deliver solutions to challenges in high performance computing, informatics, and next-generation sequencing.
Dr. Osborne comes to BioTeam from his own consulting company [...]

28Feb2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Grid Engine LifeSci SIG formed

{ Cross-posted from http://gridengine.info … }
The above image shows a pair of Illumina Genome Analyzer systems installed in a laboratory setting. The Illumina systems are one example of what people are calling “Next Generation” systems for doing DNA and whole-Genome analysis. Everyone is working hard to produce the fabled “$1000 Genome” and there is [...]

18Feb2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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WikiLIMS ABRF/AGBT Poster available

Click on the document image below to download a PDF formated version of the WikiLIMS poster displayed at the 2008 AGBT Meeting. Authored by Mike Cariaso (BioTeam) and Timothy D. Read (U.S. Naval Medical Research Center).

13Feb2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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ABRF 2008 Candids

Some quick camera phone images showing the city as well as the BioTeam Booth at the ABRF meeting

11Feb2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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AGBT 2008 Candid

AGBT 2008 kicked off today. Here is a camera-phone snap of our WikiLIMS poster (poster #14 for interested attendees).

7Feb2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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