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- Amazon puts human genome, other data sets in the cloud
- Amazon Web Services AWS on Thursday said it will publish data sets such as the Human Genome, U.S. Census and labor statistics to its cloud to make the information easier to access for researchers. For starters, Amazon will publish various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- UC Irvine Computer Sciences Chooses D-Link Switches to Ensure Reliable, High-Performance Data Processing for Genome and Bioinformatics Applications
- A group associated with UCI's Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences ICS, the UCI Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics IGB, needed switches for managing large data file transfers and data set crunching. The IGB group is involved in Genome projects which require intensive computing to map genes and perform...
- Case studies 2008-09-02
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- Image galleries 2007-03-30
- 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...
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- 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...
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- Can IBM's DNA transistor someday take genetic sequencing mainstream?
- sweet!is the genome xprize over? I lost track of it... it doesn't seem to be in the news as much...RE: Can IBM's DNA transistor someday take genetic sequencing mainstream?Oh, come on. To control the speed the DNA strand passes through the reader, it's just a matter of using...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Can IBM's DNA transistor someday take genetic sequencing mainstream?
- IBM Research on Tuesday unveiled plans to create a "DNA transistor" that would result in personalized genetic testing for about $100 to $1,000. If successful, IBM could take genetic testing mainstream. In other words, your future Best Buy shopping list may look like this: PC, digital camera,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- NIH News Reader 1.6.3 (Mobile)
- NIH News Reader grabs the top stories from the National Institutes and delivers them to your iPhone or iTouch. The news feeds covers latest news, research matters, NIH roadmap, National Eye Institute, National Human Genome Research Institute, Environmental Health Perspectives, National Institute of Environmental Health Science, National Institute of General...
- Software downloads 2009-08-26
- Microsoft patents XML word processing documents
- Our patent system is brokenI just think the PTO isn't sophisticated enough to understand what is really going on.Property List EditorHow would this patent relate to Apple's already existing Property List Editor application, a Developer Tool for editing "plist files" written in XML (along with any other XML files that...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
- Should your genes be open source?
- Should your genes be open source?How can you patent something you didn't invent? ntntI thought patenting life was verboten.Prior art.Life forms are self aware.Owning life smacks of slavery.Privacy violations.Owning life has serious problems. Patenting just the process is one thing but owning the results in the end is immoral, especially...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-20
- Limits urged on genetic testing
- Limits urged on genetic testingPreexisting conditions.Nothing will be used to help the consumer. It is used against the consumer to maximize profits. Wait till some genome company gets to broker your data. This is the future goldmine. It is more profitable to collect premiums and then bump them off thru...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
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