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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 deployment of enterprise [...]

1Jun2009 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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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 engineer [...]

29May2009 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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How to get the most from a gene test

BioTeam’s own Mike Cariaso talks about his SNPedia project in a Nature writeup.

5Nov2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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WikiLIMS Poster from 2008 Nex-Gen Sequencing Conference

This is long overdue but we are now posting up the powerpoint (.ppt) file that was used to create the CSHL WikiLIMS poster that was presented at the 2008 Next-Gen Sequencing Conference in Rhode Island a few weeks ago.

9Oct2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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SGE launchd script maker for Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard

We now have a perl script that will automatically create site-appropriate launchd plist files for Grid Engine – the files are constructed by querying the SGE environment variables and running one of the SGE utility scripts. This may be a more convenient method than downloading our plist files and hand-editing them via the Apple plist editor program.

15Jul2008 | blogadmin | 3 comments | Continued
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Integrating UniCluster Express with Amazon EC2

Chris Dagdigian recently test-drove Univa UD’s UniCluster Express, integrated it with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

15Jul2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Genetic Engineering News: Managing Data from Next-Gen Sequencing

Bill Van Etten has a piece in the April 2008 issue of Genetic Engineering News.
Excerpt:
“…One terabyte of data is not large by today’s standards. An external terabyte disk can be purchased for less than a few hundred dollars at any office supply store. Accumulating one terabyte per day, maintaining it for rapid online access, and [...]

16Apr2008 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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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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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 | 2 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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