During the 30 minutes or so after boarding a plane and when you are free to use approved electronic devices, you can get a little reading done. On my last couple trips I had a stack of somewhat dated Newsweek magazines to pore through. Fortunately, there were several good articles, which I now pass along for your consideration (which I type on my computer during the period I am free to use approved electronic devices... Full Post
Below is a nice interview with DiAnne Mueller, CEO of the St. Louis Crisis Nursery, talking about what the Crisis Nursery does and how you can help. Full Post
The Genome Center recently received word that its grant proposal for a data center was approved (St. Louis Business Journal). The $14.3 million grant is funded by National Center for Research Resources and the money comes from ARRA. The grant, along with about $8 million dollars from Washington University, will allow us to essentially duplicate our current data center capacity. We took possession of our current data center in May 2008 and it is already... Full Post
If you are going to be at XGen next week and you are interested in cloud computing and its application to bioinformatics, be sure to stop and participate in the Cloud Computing in Bioinformatics discussion I will be "facilitating" on Wednesday morning (March 17). My talk is at 3:05 p.m. PT on Tuesday and I will be chairing the first session on Monday (if my plane is on time and the taxi is fast enough).... Full Post
I recently did an interview in advance of my talk at the XGen Congress next month in San Diego. The interview is about 14 minutes and discusses our work at The Genome Center in general and more specifically the software and IT infrastructure we have created to enable the analysis of the massive amounts of sequence data we generate. The interview is available to download as part of the XGen Congress podcast series. Full Post