EdgeBio Announces One Stop Sequencing

Bio-IT World | At CHI's Beyond Sequencing conference in San Francisco, EdgeBio introduced their Science as a Service offering built with CLC bio's enterprise platform, CLC Genomics Server.

Sage Establishes Computer Modeling Program

Bio-IT World | Sage Bionetworks has received a $5m grant from the Washington Life Science Discovery Fund (LSDF) to establish a novel program to apply advanced computational modeling to the discovery and development of disease therapies.

IBM Looks to Build Up

IBM | IBM is intent on keeping Moore in business for the next 15 years. IBM researchers have partnered with two Swiss institutes to understand how the latest chip cooling techniques can support a 3D chip architecture. A vertical integration of chips could overcome current limitations of Moore's Law, ensuring that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every 18 months.

IBM Algorithm Finds Data Anomalies

Forbes | IBM researchers have announced a new algorithm to help researchers look for irregular relations between data at about 100 times the speed while maintaining the same level of accuracy.

Amazon’s Cloud Raining Gifts for 2010

January 20, 2010 | Inside the Box | Over the 2009 holiday shopping season, Amazon.com processed an estimated 73 items per second and 6.3 million items on a typical day. That may not come as much of a surprise. But what you may not know is that it’s all powered by cloud computing from Amazon Web Services (AWS). And Amazon isn’t even the biggest AWS customer, according to CEO Werner Vogels. Amazon’s Infrastructure as a Service is so far ahead in the cloud that competitors are struggling to keep pace. AWS is not about to rest on its laurels. Fortunately for the rapidly growing number of AWS users, it is aggressively innovating and improving its services. One might even say that during the 2009 holiday season, it left us some presents under the tree.