Xconomy: Amazons Cloud Computing Service Sees Opportunity in Genomic Data Overload
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The software that needs to run on top of Amazon’s storage capacity and databases—the bioinformatics piece of the puzzle—is still a cottage industry with home-made programs, piecemeal open source alternatives, and a lot of researchers still using old-school spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel.Yet even before companies like DNANexus achieve major market traction with simple and easy-to-use bioinformatics software, many researchers still feel compelled to store the data in anticipation of the day when it will be easier to sift through.At least one competitor, Seattle-based Isilon Systems, is making visible inroads in the life sciences market by selling of clustered servers.He got his doctorate in chemistry from Syracuse University, and spent eight years of his career in the biotech industry, including stints at San Diego-based Accelrys and Seattle’s Rosetta Inpharmatics.The past two years, he’s been working as a business development manager for Amazon Web Services, with a particular emphasis on getting to know what the life sciences market wants from cloud computing.
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