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Isilon’s Data Storage Odyssey

May 19, 2009 | During his five years working at Real Networks, the pioneering streaming media Internet company, Sujal Patel began to appreciate the sheer size and growth of the data his customers were trying to store. Their frustrations sharpened his ideas on how to solve the storage scalability problem. In 2001, he founded Isilon Systems in Seattle, with the goal of building a storage architecture from scratch. Patel realized this file-based explosion was much broader than digital content, reaching all sorts of data—oil and gas, media, design, and bioinformatics.

Information You Can Bank On

May 19, 2009 | Andy Harris, Information Services Director of UK Biobank, was entrusted with a daunting task when he joined the huge data repository project, which was first conceptualized a decade ago: Design an IT system with the capability to manage more than a quarter of a billion data points, track over 20 million blood samples, and, perhaps most challenging, analyze and mine all that data without knowing how the information might be used 5, 10, or 20 years down the road.

Platforms for Personalized Medicine

Integrating clinical information and R&D data will ensure success. By Neil de Crescenzo March 24, 2009 | Personalized medicine promises to improve understanding of the mechanisms of disease and permit more effective patient care. It also stands to transform the

Ted Slater’s Semantic Technologies

The semantic web doesn’t exist, but Pfizer’s Slater believes semantic technologies are paving the way. By Kevin Davies and Phillips Kuhl March 24, 2009 | The theoretical benefits of the semantic web for life sciences have been debated for a

Computational Model Predicts Cell Signaling Behavior Bio-IT World | Scientists at MIT have made some surprising observations about cellular communication that could prove useful in improving disease treatments such as chemotherapy.

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Biomarkers: An Indispensible Addition to the Drug Development Toolkit

Examining the Potential of Biomarkers

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Spain Biotech: An Engine for Economic Change

Discover how Spain is focusing on biotechnology to be an engine for economic change through gradual internationalization, development and technology transfer.

Regional governments are actively investing in public and private biology research and promoting the creation of knowledge-based companies. Spain’s human capital combined with aggressive investment in biotech research and infrastructure has led to the creation of bio-clusters.

Today, there are nearly 700 Spanish companies engaged in biotechnology, with almost 50 percent growth in funding devoted to research. In fact, spending on internal R & D in biotechnology has grown 46 percent and is close to 300 million Euros.

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MANAGER, SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING & PROGRAMMING (Bioinformatics Manager)
SAIC-Frederick, Inc has an exciting opportunity for a Manager, Scientific Computing & Programming - Core Genoytyping Facility in Gaithersburg, Maryland. In this role, you will lead the Bioinformatics & Analysis Group.
Master’s or equivalent required. PhD preferred. Six years experience in development of scientific programs in high-performance computing environment including five years supporting scientific research in computational chemistry, biology, or genetics, & two years supervisory experience. View complete job posting & apply: www.saic-frederick.com. Position #146945.

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