GenomeWeb reports on the HHS Advisory groups proposal to "limit the ability of holders of gene patents to keep others from using those genes for diagnostic and research purposes." The GLR recaps the evolution of the debate and the sponsors an interesting dialog in a recent post Up Next in Gene ...
If you are a developer or a technical type, this one is for you. Over at Depth-First there is a blog post about an application in the cheminformatics field: PubCouch: Streams aren't just for Pipeline Pilot. The author illustrates how a well abstracted Web service avoids the costly database Extract-Transform-Load operations so familiar ...
A plot of the Evolution of Computer Capacity and Costs shows that compute power will be 1,000X cheaper in 10 years. How much lower can it go? As this happens the relative cost of managing another computer goes asymptotic to zero, regardless of whether its hosted internally or externally. I don't think there is ...
The recent article "Tear Down This Firewall: Pharma Scientists Call for a Pre-competitive Approach to Bioinformatics" signals a watershed event in the evolution of commercial bioinformatics industry. Faced with the dual forces of budget pressures and need to invest or die, pharma is giving itself "permission" to consider economic alternatives to ...
Recently I met with a genomics executive at a Biotech who expressed frustration that by appearances, NGS software vendors appear similar. I agree with his assessment if you just look at the web sites. Customers can play a role in helping the vendor community communicate (and compete) better by asking this simple question: "What are ...
