Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 26 October 2004

Powerful Yet Simple Technology Required to "Discover Life"

An ambitious project to catalog all living things relies on volunteers around the world, straightforward Web tools, and robust technology.
http://www.sun.com/br/1004_ezine/ls_dl.html
Sun donated several servers to this project.

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APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS COURSE (ACGC)

Reminder: Registration deadline is November 5th, 2004

Canadian Bioinformatics Resource
NRC Institute for Marine Biosciences, Halifax, NS
Saturday, November 27 - Sunday, December 5, 2004

Scientific coordinator: Dr. Brian Fristensky, University of Manitoba Topics include (tentative):

• Basic Unix skills on a network-centric desktop
• Canadian Bioinformatics Resource (CBR)
• BIRCH: Working with large numbers of sequences on a comprehensive bioinformatics system
• BIRCH: Creating your own in-house bioinformatics platform
• Genome Canada Bioinformatics Help Desk
• Perl scripting: Quick automation of data analysis tasks and utilization of web services
• How biological concepts are phrased in computational models and how such models can be made operational in a database
• Statistics and simulation testing with Perl
• BIND: Analyzing a gene in its biological context and retrieving lists of functionally related genes, i.e. interactors or co-regulated genes
• BioPerl; Object-oriented Perl; Data warehousing - the SeqHound API
• BioMOBY: a transparent software layer that automatically finds and uses web services
• High-throughput genome annotation with TimeLogic and GeneMatcher hardware
• MAGPIE : Automated genome analysis and annotation
• BLUEJAY : Genome data visualization
• OSPREY: High-throughput oligonucleotide design

For more information about this workshop or to download a registration form, please go to http://www.gcbioinformatics.ca or contact: sophie.chung@visualgenomics.ca

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Geospiza/Sun Offer: "Finch on Sun" with Free Sun V20z Opteron Server

Geospiza and Sun Microsystems are teaming to offer the life science industry's most cost-efficient platform for managing the production and analysis of DNA sequencing and genotyping data, fully integrated from instrument to result and easily upgradeable year after year. If maintaining that custom-built system is hurting your facilities productivity, it's time to learn more about "Finch on Sun", delivered out-of-the box and ready to go with real and measurable results. And, for a limited time only, each new "Finch on Sun" system is delivered with a FREE Sun V20z Opteron server, alone a nearly $3,000 value. There is no reason to hesitate.åÊ Contact Geospiza at www.geospiza.com/sun or more information today.

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Sun and Sybase Create World's Largest Data Warehouse, Breaking Through One Trillion Row Threshold

Sybase IQ Analytics Database and Sun's iForce Enterprise Data Warehouse Reference Architecture Compress 155 Terabytes of Input Data into Less than 55 Terabytes of Storage Interesting experiment, given the predictions of "petabytes" of biodata:
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2004-10/sunflash.20041004.2.html

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Lot's of new material at:www.sun.com/edu/commofinterest/compbio

We've updated the site, please check it out.

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Have your friends joined this alias yet?

They can join my emailing to compbio-sig-info@sun.com, or from our webpaged (see #5); just follow the link to the Sun CB-SIG pages.

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The HPC-Consortium is next week in Pittsburgh!

There is a terrific program, including a CB-SIG meeting on 7 Nov. www.sun-registration.com/hpc If you are not interested in the HPC Consortium, you can still attend the CB-SIG meeting for free.

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