PROFILES: Testimonials

"After deciding on an Xserve cluster solution for a university BLAST server, we brought in BioTeam to configure the system. The result was well beyond expectations, a truly multifunctional web portal including not only BLAST, FASTA and HMMER but the full EMBOSS suite running on top of a Sun Grid Engine managed cluster. Not only will this web portal be used as a research resource, but as a teaching resource. BioTeam turned our cluster into a working portal over the Christmas break and they have been a pleasure to work with because of their competence and creativity. If you want a bioinformatics cluster that works, as opposed to a painful learning experience, you should hire BioTeam."

David Adelson, Associate Professor Animal Genomics
Texas A&M University

"Beyond Genomics, Inc. engaged BioTeam to help construct a Linux Cluster facility for Systems Biology Informatics. They have also helped to develop and migrate a broad assortment of code (including code developed by BG for Matlab) to run on our cluster and take advantage of Sun's GridEngine. In both projects, they have met and even surpassed our design and functional expectations, providing Beyond Genomics with a computer infrastructure that is both powerful and flexible to handle the complex sets of tasks required by Systems Biology. With this compute facility, we can analyze complex molecular data, model complex biological systems, and even visually simulate molecular phenomena all on the same cluster of processors."

Eric Neumann Vice President of Bioinformatics
Beyond Genomics Inc. Waltham, MA

BioTeam has been instrumental to the smooth and fast setup of our 75-node Xserve cluster. They provided great insight into this novel and challenging architecture, and have considerably cut times of mass installation, configuration, networking and general setup. They provided wonderful service by integrating their onsite help (Chris Dagdigian) who could deal with tasks that necessitated physical presence, with remote assistance from the rest of BioTeam, thus providing service almost around the clock because of the time difference involved. Their enthusiasm for working clean and documented solutions is what differentiates them from a company that "merely provides a service". They have done the utmost to provide real added value and quality given our demands. I warmly recommend for any stage of the life of a bioinformatics cluster, be it the initial setup and implementation as in our case or a later reorganization and optimization stage.

Elia Stupka, Bioinformatics Program Manager
Tamasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore

"We were highly impressed with the work from BioTeam did while at Third Wave Technologies. In just three days, BioTeam converted our cluster from a set of idle machines with no software installed, into a fully functional BLAST cluster. BioTeam did in three days what would have taken us three months. Having our cluster up and running has greatly improved our data throughput and has allowed us to meet multiple deadlines earlier."

Bonnie Hurwitz, Bioinformatics Scientist
Third Wave Technologies, Madison, WI

"After getting quotes and benchmarks from each vendor [HP, IBM & Sun], the company brought in BioTeam to do a "reality check." The resulting 64-node cluster came in at "around half the cost of comparable systems and offers a degree of flexibility that we would not have been able to get through other channels." (BioInform July 1, 2002)

Dan Kilburn, Senior Scientist
Beyond Genomics, Waltham, MA

"BioTeam provided us with a turnkey solution for design, sourcing and implementing our computational infrastructure at the Bauer Center for Genomics Research. They saved us significant time and dollars. Thanks to BioTeam, we now have a system that is easy to administer and will scale as our computational needs grow."

Al Daneau, Director of IT
Harvard University, Center for Genomic Research
Cambridge, MA

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