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 [...]
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.
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.
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?
The data explosion hits even the smallest labs with the arrival of terabyte-producing lab instruments.
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.
Chris Dwan says, “Virtualization has turned an important corner: it is now a productivity tool for the individual user.”
Chris Dwan takes a look at power consumption monitoring
Bill Van Etten takes a look at dynamic services through a static URL.
Bill Van Etten asks: Why can’t today’s bioinformatics research tools be as simple to operate as the iPod?
