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- What IBM rice study may teach us about people
- IBM's announcement last week that it will use its World Community Grid to study increased rice production may tell us more about ourselves than about the rice. The study, which you can join here, aims to create better strains of rice by studying how rice genes and...
- Tags: Genome, IBM Corp., Biotechnology, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Can Fox' genome help cure Parkinson's?
- 23andme has signed up The Parkinson's Institute as a test market for its personal genome service. The effort is being underwritten by the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Since announcing he had Parkinson's a decade ago, Fox right has built a charitable powerhouse which has donated over $120 million...
- Tags: Genome, Co-founder, Disease, Parkinson, 23andme, Institute, Biotechnology, Social Networking, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Life in extreme environments
- U.S. biologists have developed a model mapping the control circuit governing a bacteria named Halobacterium salinarum, which can live in extremely salty environments, and that can survive to radiation which would be deadly to most other organisms. Their model shows how these bacteria adapt themselves in response to their environment....
- Tags: Genome, Environment, Gene, Bacteria, Cell, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-30
- World-Renowned Genome Research Facility Relies on Sun to Provide Cost-Efficient High-Performance Compute Grid
- The Institute for Genomic Research TIGR is a non-profit organization dedicated to deciphering and analyzing genomes - the complex molecular chains that constitute each organism's unique genetic heritage. The company's challenge was to improve performance of compute grid to accommodate compute-intensive research to reduce IT expenses to maintain internal cost...
- Tags: Genome, Sun Microsystems Inc., High-performance Computing, Grid, Biotechnology, Leadership, Management
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- The importance of gene targeting and persistence
- This year's Nobel Prize in Medicine went to the discovery of "gene targeting," which is now a vital technique not just in isolating diseases to specific genomes but in producing study subjects. The study subjects in this case are mice, which can now be produced with any...
- Tags: Genome, Mouse, Scientist, Gene, Biotechnology, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Today's Debate: Are genetic tests a threat?
- The start-up 23andme, whose best-known board member is Esther Dyson (right, from their web site), has an interesting goal. They want your genome. The company wants to build a database of genomes and offer "private, secured" access to it. Jesse Reynolds of the Center for Genetics and Society writes...
- Tags: Genome, Esther Dyson, Biotechnology, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- Esther Dyson is posting her genome on the Web; Will you follow?
- Esther Dyson is posting her genome on the Web; Will you follow?Health Insurance was soon after unavailable for heryeah great way to market a bad idea
- Tags: Biotechnology, Channel management, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, genome, Esther Dyson, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- Esther Dyson is posting her genome on the Web; Will you follow?
- In a Wall Street Journal editorial Esther Dyson outlines how she will post her genome, medical history and health questionnaire for the world to see on the Web. Will you follow?Dyson, an investor in genome information startup 23andMe, is participating in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome project. In the...
- Tags: General, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- The IT behind the Cancer Genome Atlas
- This month the National Cancer Institutes Cancer Genome Atlas will start receiving tissue samples which will be used to map the genetic data embedded in cancer cells. The side effect...
- Tags: Utility computing, Software Infrastructure, Science, Open Source, IT Management, Innovation, Hardware Infrastructure, Government, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- How the Cancer Genomic Atlas will work
- The Cancer Genomic Atlas will have a heavy information technology component as it crunches data to map the cancer genome.
- Tags: Biotechnology, genome, information technology
- Image galleries 2007-03-30
- Celera Tailors 12 Terabytes of Raw Genomics Data Into Insights for Life Sciences Researchers
- In 2000, Celera Genomics Group announced it had successfully sequenced the human genome, a milestone that accelerated the process of creating a roadmap of human genetics and altered medical, pharmaceutical, and biotech forever. As Celera knows well, the challenge of being a critical information resource for the life sciences community...
- Tags: Genome, Oracle Corp., Life Science, Biotechnology, Healthcare
- Case studies
- StorageTek SANs Keep the Sanger Institute at the Forefront of Genome Research
- DNA sequencing produces a massive amount of data. Every day about 100,000 sequence reactions are run at the Sanger Institute, generating approximately 50 million bases of raw sequence data. The Sanger Institute was finding it harder to manage its rapidly increasing data volumes, and also needed a larger tape library...
- Tags: Genome, Tape Library, SAN, StorageTek, Backups, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- Human Genome Center at the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo
- With the renewal of their supercomputer system in January 2003, the Human Genome Center at the Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, updated their publicly available Internet service, which allows any user to search genomic databases. The center chose HiRDB, a scalable database from Hitachi, to achieve rapid...
- Tags: Genome, Supercomputer, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- BC Cancer Agency Genome Sciences Centre Speeds Biological Breakthroughs by Standardizing on Network Appliance
- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre GSC advances cancer research, diagnosis, and treatment via high-throughput genome mapping and DNA sequencing. The challenge was to scale to tens of millions of files and eliminate disruptive crashes. GSC also wanted to boost performance for heavy I/O and secure regulated patient data. The...
- Tags: Genome, Information Management, Network Appliance Inc., Agency, NetApp, Biotechnology, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- GWT fireside chat
- I'm still wading through all the notes I took at the Google I/O 2008 conference last week. If you want to see pictures, check out my flickr photoset (183 photos). While I was there, I went to two sessions called "fireside chats". Although there was no fire...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Web Toolkit, Google Web Toolkit 1.5, JS, Q., Q. Google Web Toolkit 1.5, Q. Model, Programming Languages, RPC, Development Tools, Java, Scripting Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Networking, Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- 23andme presents its consumer strategy
- It's research, and the tentative name for it is 23andwe, although the company has yet to buy a separate domain name. The phrase was first used by co-founder Linda Avey at a Bio-IT World Expo keynote earlier this month. The idea was fleshed out...
- Tags: Strategy, Researcher, Survey, Marketing Research, Domain Names, Marketing, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Moore's Law and health care
- Roland Piquepaille's latest take on nanobots in the bloodstream has me reflecting on the greatest force we have available for surviving health care inflation. Moore's Law. Moore's Law, the idea that technology gets faster-and-faster faster-and-faster, is not applied often enough to health care. Regulation...
- Tags: Health Care, Moore, Law, Nanoscience, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Nanorobots to improve health care
- Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...
- Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Small differences can make a BIG difference
- I recently got a chance to talk with one VC firm that's focused some of its attention and money on cleantech. One of their investments is in OPX, which seems to have a unique approach to solving some of the energy and raw material supply issues facing the planet....
- Tags: Chemicals, Clean Technology, Costs, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Unixfication II
- Can the Linux community get over its "not invented here" ideology which has often hindered its ability to adopt technological improvements from outside sources? I keep saying to myself, I hope so. But recent events have shown me that we have a long way to go until we become a...
- Tags: GPL, Virtualization, Kernel, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Sun Solaris, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
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