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SNPedia: A Wiki for Personal Genomics

A few years ago, having gained familiarity with various microarray platforms, I figured out how to run my own DNA and extract the details. By cataloguing my single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), I knew 500,000 facts about myself, but had no idea about their implications. As my resources were more technical than financial, starting a wiki made more sense than starting a genetic testing company.

17Dec2007 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Sunny Skies for Compute Cloud

Buying CPUs by the hour is back. Marketing apparently decided that ‘On Demand’ sounds pushy and ‘Utility’ and ‘Grid’ are too rigid. This time it will be called a ‘Cloud’, and it will be running inside Amazon.com.

13Nov2007 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Next-Generation Sequencing Problems and Solutions

How will the ability to generate so much more sequence so cheaply affect the sequencing market, and what are the IT implications for analyzing all this data?

10Oct2007 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Of Sequences and Sneakernets

The data explosion hits even the smallest labs with the arrival of terabyte-producing lab instruments.

13Jun2007 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Top 10 BioIT Trends for 2007

Each of us at The BioTeam contributed a few topics (in no particular order) that we think will be important to watch closely in 2007.

14Dec2006 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Personal Virtual Machines

Chris Dwan says, “Virtualization has turned an important corner: it is now a productivity tool for the individual user.”

15Nov2006 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Power Users

Chris Dwan takes a look at power consumption monitoring

15Aug2006 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Say Bonjour to Dynamic Services

Bill Van Etten takes a look at dynamic services through a static URL.

12May2006 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Easing In to Ease of Use

Bill Van Etten asks: Why can’t today’s bioinformatics research tools be as simple to operate as the iPod?

14Apr2006 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Notes from the Lab: Multicore and More

Chris Dwan asks how the new multicore production servers stack up against classic systems

17Feb2006 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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