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Software development plays a significant role in the world of bioinformatics and modern life sciences research. Indeed, software (and hardware) engineers are responsible for providing the infrastructure that makes delivery of scientific services possible. However, career development often remains…
The Technical Service Cluster’s Cloud Consultants recently delivered their first Research Operations (ResOps) training session since February, at the request of our colleagues at EMBL Heidelberg. Originally planned as an in-person course, this was just one of the events that was postponed because…
In the spring of 2020, Google offered EMBL-EBI some temporary licenses for the online training platform, Coursera, as part of the growing collaboration between EMBL-EBI and Google Cloud. Ten licenses were made available for a period of 3 months, providing access to a selection of courses curated by…
In the first of a series of technical staff profiles, we caught up with cloud computing maestro Tony Wildish, to try and find out what life in the Technical Services Cluster at EMBL-EBI is really like…
Migrating to the cloud has always proven problematic for the life science research community due to the need to access huge data-sets spread across different storage types in different locations, from a variety of different cloud environments. These use cases were the primary reason why, in 2016,…
The MGnify team at EMBL-EBI, led by Rob Finn recently made use of cloud resources to increase the throughput of their metagenome assembly pipeline. The pipeline requires access to high memory machines, i.e. machines with 1TB or more of memory. EMBL-EBI currently only has six of these, and they are…
An end-to-end demonstration of the distributed workflow execution capability as part of the ELIXIR GA4GH Cloud Platform was showcased at the GA4GH 6th Plenary Meeting organised by ELIXIR Europe in Basel, Switzerland. The work was a joint effort between five ELIXIR partners and coordinated by our…
The rise of cloud computing has disrupted the way businesses build and purchase their IT infrastructure. Obtaining just the right amount of resources around the world with a few clicks (or API calls) unlocks completely new operational scenarios. Cloud computing, when done right, can solve…