Informatics Iron from GenomeWeb

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Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:18:51 +0000

Informatics Iron ceased publication Monday, August 13, 2012. For more informatics news, please check out GenomeWeb's other coverage here.

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:42:52 +0000

The TACC's Ranger supercomputer is helping UCSB researchers better understand Alzheimer's disease.

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:12:01 +0000

A Chinese research team has accelerates the DNADist algorithm by a factor of 16 using GPUs.

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:53:39 +0000

The National Cancer Institute's informatics program is working to develop a roadmap for open software development.

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:37:50 +0000

GenomeQuest announces the release of its HIPAA-compliant NGS data management platform for the cloud.

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:16:31 +0000

TACC has developed an API to make scientific computing on the web more powerful.

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:42:25 +0000

A software consortium for structural biologists provides scientist-software developers with a friendly guide of software licenses.

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:13:43 +0000

A new Web browser-enabled image analysis app promises to improve diagnostics for cancer patients.

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:53:38 +0000

Gigasciene — an open-source journal offering research papers linked to a database — is now available.

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:11:21 +0000

Intel and NextBio team up in collaborative effort to develop the Hadoop software stack for bioinformatics.

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:49:03 +0000

A new algorithm allows researchers to compute directly on compressed genome data.

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:08:43 +0000

Need a Linux server but don't have the hardware to host one? TurnKey Linux might be the ticket.

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 01:24:08 +0000

Cloud vendor Cloudera is making inroads with using the cloud in healthcare settings.