Inside the Box – Jan 2012
The Unstable Equilibrium of the Bioinformatics Org Chart
Category: Publications
MiniLIMS WhitePaper
March 2011 MiniLIMS Whitepaper now available as a PDF download.
Mar 12, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
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 [...]
Jun 01, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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 [...]
May 29, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
How to get the most from a gene test
BioTeam’s own Mike Cariaso talks about his SNPedia project in a Nature writeup.
Nov 05, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
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.
Oct 09, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
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.
Jul 15, 2008 | 8 comments | View Post
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).
Jul 15, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
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 [...]
Apr 16, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
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 [...]
Apr 16, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
