Quick Bytes – Staffing & Training for Bio-IT
There were some interesting questions at 2017’s Bio-IT World Town Hall. This is a short clip of the panel discussing the challenges of finding staff with the necessary skills for modern Bio-IT.
Transitioning from Big Data to Discovery
In this week’s HPCwire, BioTeam’s Ari Berman explores the scientific advances that have lead to this growing data challenge and discusses both the IT implications of managing and utilizing these quantities of data and the challenges these volumes of data present to the scientist trying to work with them. Berman concludes by identifying some data […]
Trends in Life Sciences High-Performance Computing, Part 2
In part two of the Berman and Gardner interview (Part 1 here) the discussion turns to storage technology options, fast networking for life sciences, and diversifying choices in processors from Intel, AMD, and IBM, , . They consider technology examples and issues of power utilization, raw cost and how to interpret vendor signals around diversifying CPU […]
Trends in Life Sciences High-Performance Computing, Part 1
In the March 1st issue of HPCwire, BioTeam’s Ari Berman and Aaron Gardner are featured in part 1 of a wide-ranging discussion about trends in High-Performance Computing. Their discussion covers AI, Analytics, and insights into leading strengths and capabilities of premiere cloud platforms. They review underlying drivers of HPC in life sciences and look at […]
BioTeam and OpenSky discuss the intersection of Science, IT and Data Protection
On September 19th BioTeam’s Chris Dagdigian joined OpenSky Corporation’s Mark Coderre to discuss “the intersection of Science, IT and Data Protection beyond compliance and regulation”.
Join BioTeam at The Disruptive Storage Workshop 3.0
We are excited to announce that BioTeam is once again contributing to the The Disruptive Storage Workshop 3.0 hosted by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH), taking place July 13th and 14th in Baltimore, MD. BioTeam and BPSH have worked together for many years and decided to organize this workshop because of their […]
BioTeam Presentations at iRODS User Group Meeting 2017
BioTeam is presenting two talks at the iRODS User Group Meeting 2017 taking place next week in Utrecht, The Netherlands. John Jacquay and Aaron Gardner will be sharing many of the software and architectural design patterns BioTeam has been using to incorporate iRODS into our development stack. For those attending feel free to introduce yourselves, […]
Facilitating Collaborative Life Science Research in Commercial & Enterprise Environments
Chris Dagdigian, BioTeam’s Co-founder and Senior Director of Infrastructure, recently gave a presentation at NEREN’s “Bridging the Gap – Research Facilitation” seminar hosted by OSHEAN in Cambridge, MA. The event as a whole was focused on the challenges associated with supporting regional collaboration and research computing. Chris’ presentation uses BioTeam’s experiences supporting Life Science organizations as a backdrop to discuss current and emerging challenges, […]
BioTeam receives 2016 NIH Directors Award as part of the African Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics Team
Towards the end of last year BioTeam was honored to receive an NIH Director’s award as part of a team that helped establish the first African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics. The team worked with NIAID and the University of Sciences, Techniques, and Technology (USTTB) in Bamako, Mali to build a classroom space with modern bioinformatics workstations […]
2017 HPC Trends in Life Sciences
BioTeam’s Ari Berman was recently interviewed by HPC Wire’s John Russell about how customers in the Life Sciences are utilizing High Performance Computing (HPC) and how that usage might evolve over the course of 2017. There’s a lot of insight and background in the full article on HPC Wire, we’ve pulled out some of the high points below. […]
