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...
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,...
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...
Chris has been delivering his "trends from the trenches" presentation at the BioIT World Conference & Expo since 2010 and the talk has evolved into a fairly popular annual tradition. The intent of the talk is to deliver a candid (and occasionally blunt) assessment of the best, the...
Managing and analyzing one genome's worth of data is no trivial task, when you are working towards sequencing and analyzing 10,000 genomes and making this data broadly available then a whole new set of challenges arise. BioTeam has been working on just such a project...
Event description and details for the ScienceDMZ webinar scheduled for May 18, 2015...
Using PIV smart cards for HHS VPN login with Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Note: This entire post is basically google search bait designed to (hopefully) allow others struggling with the same issues to save a bit of time. Hope it helps! October 30, 2014 Update There is...
I recently presented at the annual Molecular Medicine Triconference in San Francisco, CA. This talk focused on horizontal and vertical scaling in the life sciences. Scaling Systems for Research Computing from adamkraut ...