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AS Profile The search engine goes far beyond Google, type in a genetic code and it will tell you what strand of DNA it is situated on and what we know about it. Professor Stephen Wolfram hit the headlines earlier this year by... [30 Sep 2009]
Photos: The hottest tech out of the UK's Silicon Valley
Photo The Chain Reaction DNA system sprays burglars trying to wrench open a front door with an unique strand of custom-made DNA. The system consists of an ordinary door chain attached to the encased canister... [24 Sep 2009]
Copy Number Analysis With Illumina DNA Analysis BeadChips
White Paper The ability to perform statistical tests on large population data sets allows for the determination of those regions of copy number and/or allelic variation which are generally in common in the disease state versus the normal state. [16 Sep 2009]
A Review on Data Mining and Continuous Optimization Applications in Computational Biology and Medicine
White Paper Given the data from DNA microarray experiments and environmental measurements one extracts nonlinear ordinary differential equations which contain parameters that are to be determined. An emerging research area in... [29 Aug 2009]
Sanger Institute's Research Proves EVA4400 Benefits From Strong Genes
White Paper The Sanger Institute was one of the major team members in the Human Genome Project, the international effort to define human chromosomes, genes and DNA sequences. The Institute wanted to provide storage capacity to... [22 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo Johnson will also have ultimate responsibility for the National DNA Database kept by UK police. Following a week of political turmoil culminating in a cabinet reshuffle, silicon.com takes a look at the changes wrought in... [10 Jun 2009]
DNA Services Lab Orchid Cellmark Reduces Data Center by 70% and Improves Application Performance by 20% With Virtualization Solution From Dell
White Paper Expanding data volumes led to space, power and cooling issues, which were pushing the company to consider building out data centers; while maintenance contracts for many of the servers in production were expiring. [30 May 2009]
Integrating SAND-DNA Software and Network Appliance Storage
White Paper Corporations deploying SAP solutions today have seen exponential growth in data volume. The addition of multiple mySAP Business Suite components and more stringent regulatory requirements for data retention has put a heavy burden on... [29 May 2009]
Photos: The top five UK supercomputing projects
Photo At Leicester University, the Spectrum HPC is looking at variations in the rungs on the ladder of DNA, known as base pairs, to discover which genes are linked with disease. Get yourself a supercomputer. [18 May 2009]
Yahoo! opens up for future
News co-founder, David Filo, said: "Open has kind of been at the core, part of the DNA of Yahoo! is putting it's faith in openness to attract more users to its online services and ultimately generate more revenue. [15 May 2009]
Dawn Foods Uses PeopleAnswers to Achieve 53% Turnover Reduction
White Paper PeopleAnswers compares the Behavioral DNA of candidates against Dawn's custom Performance Profile. The custom profile was created by analyzing the Behavioral DNA of Dawn's existing employee base in those... [30 Apr 2009]
Restaurant Reduces Manager Turnover by 42% With PeopleAnswers
White Paper PeopleAnswers customized a Performance Profile by first assessing the incumbents in the target position, then aligning the resulting Behavioral DNA with objective, job-related performance metrics. For the restaurant... [30 Apr 2009]
High Hotels Achieves 30% Turnover Reduction With PeopleAnswers
White Paper PeopleAnswers partnered with High Hotels in meeting this challenge by deploying a performance-based methodology (Performance DNA) that would help identify the unique traits in High Hotels employees that: Contribute most... [30 Apr 2009]
UC Irvine Computer Sciences Chooses D-Link Switches to Ensure Reliable, High-Performance Data Processing for Genome and Bioinformatics Applications
White Paper The IGB group is involved in Genome projects which require intensive computing to map genes and perform "Blast" procedures for examining DNA strands. A group associated with UCI's Bren School of Information and Computer... [03 Apr 2009]
'Fundamentally flawed, almost certainly illegal': Gov't databases
News These include the National Identity Register, the communications database behind the Intercept Modernisation Programme, and the National DNA Database. The National DNA Database was also criticised by the... [23 Mar 2009]
