There is a story about regional data centers in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of St. Louis Commerce Magazine that includes a section on our Genome Data Center; the only regional data center to achieve LEED certification (and gold at that!). Unfortunately, the issue seems to only be available as part of a Flash application, so I cannot link to the story, only to the issue and tell you that the data center story starts on... Full Post
I'm not talking about Rob Lowe, but about the corrupting influence of money in politics. Watch the talk Lawrence Lessig recently gave at the conservative Cato Institute to learn how bad it is, and how it is likely to become much worse. And for fun, watch Stephen Colbert's take on it. The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word - Prece-Don't www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Economy And finally, do... Full Post
What should the Democrats learn from their fall from grace over the past year? There are a lot of opinions as to what exactly the recent losses mean and what the Democrats and President Obama should do. Two of the more interesting come from David Brooks in Politics in the Age of Distrust and Drew Western in Obama Finally Gets His Victory For Bipartisanship. Full Post
Today, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announced a joint Pediatric Cancer Genome Project. This project aims to sequence tumor and normal genomes from over 600 pediatric cancer patients over three years. There is a press conference today (right now) at the National Press Club in Washington, DC (click on the 10 a.m. item in the DayBook on the left-hand side of the page). St. Jude's will... Full Post
As stated in previous posts (Bioinformatics and cloud computing and Head in the clouds), I don't think that cloud computing wins the cost competition with local resources. However, there are several reasons why an organization should consider cloud computing. Several of the reasons I present below are discussed in a great interview with Russ Daniels of HP at ars technica, Into the cloud: a conversation with Russ Daniels, Part I and Part II. If you... Full Post