Monthly Archives: April 2008
Bio-IT World day 2 – iPhones, Virtualization, EC2 and the Semantic Web
A quick report on Day 2 of Bio-IT World.
The day started with a keynote by Josh Boger, founder and CEO of Vertex. His talk spanned several real world examples and some food for thought. Highlights
Vertex has made active use of a MedChem ELN, which has been extended to their entire MedChem [...]
Posted in BioIT, Computing, Drug Development, Event, Life Science, Modeling & Simulation, Pharma, Semantic Web, Software & Internet Tagged Amazon Web Services, BioTeam, Chris Dagdigian, ELN, Eric Neumann, Joe Landman, John Wilbanks, Josh Boger, Michael Cariaso, Science Commons, Tim Berners-Lee, Web Services 4 Comments
Bio-IT World Day 1 – Visualization, the cloud and people
Detailed blog posts will follow when I have some additional cycles, but thought I’d share some quick thoughts on day 1 of Bio-IT World. My conference started with a workshop on data visualization, which was mostly about the importance of visualization for making sense of multidimensional data sets and what kind of visualizations could [...]
New business models for life science content
Let me start of by pointing everyone to the standard disclaimer.
Now to the good stuff. I have blogged about NextBio in the past. A couple of weeks about I was on the site and noticed that I could use the search engine without having to log in and get some pretty [...]
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Rethinking software access
So today, I tried to download MODELLER which is free for academics and $$$ for commercial via Accelrys (Full Disclosure: While i did not directly manage MODELER at Accelrys, I had indirect responsibilities). I completely understand that part. The problem is that the MODELLER license does not seem to address what I want [...]
Posted in Business, Modeling & Simulation, Software & Internet Tagged CHARMM, GAUSSIAN, molecular modeling, MOPAC, programmable 5 Comments
Bio-IT World Day 3 – Linda Avey Keynote