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Ex-Yahoo CEO Backs Genomics Big Data Startup Bina
FierceBiotechIT covering Bina Technologies, a genomics big data startup backed by ex-Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, building hardware-accelerated pipelines for processing whole-genome sequencing data. A 2013 marker of when genomics data volumes began requiring big data infrastructure at clinical scale.
Finally a Nanopore Sequencer That Works
CoreGenomics blog covering Oxford Nanopore's MinION — the first nanopore sequencer that actually worked reliably in practice. A 2013 milestone post documenting the moment nanopore sequencing moved from theoretical promise to real instrument.
BioInformatics: A Data Deluge with Hadoop to the Rescue
Datanami on using Apache Hadoop for bioinformatics data pipelines — how genomic sequencing data had outpaced traditional computational biology infrastructure and why Hadoop's distributed file system and MapReduce were being adopted to handle the deluge.
Accurate Identification of RNA Editing Sites from High-Throughput Sequencing Data
A Genomes Unzipped guest post on the bioinformatics challenge of accurately identifying RNA editing sites from high-throughput sequencing data — a technically demanding problem because RNA-DNA differences look similar to sequencing artifacts. Written at the height of the RNA editing research wave.