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Interfaces will save the world ... by BioTeam's Chris, in this month's BioIT-World

Wed, 2006-01-04 04:00 — agbiotec

How the WSDL interface offered by a web service, will also help bridging the gap between CS and LifeSci,,, or otherwise between the IT-savvy biologists (aka bioinformaticians) and regular biologists.

You can get it at : BioIT - inside the box ...

If I am not mistaken, that something that's been going in the IT industry for some years now (SOA et similar stuff), for helping the expert and non-expert talking to each other.


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Mon, 2006-01-09 07:04 — Neil

From the article

I like this quote:

In talking with the leader of a research group in Cambridge, he told the story of having the compute cluster he had built placed under central IT control. He described it by analogy, describing the use of the cluster as being as vital to his research as pipetting. With the cluster as a shared resource, managed by computing services, his researchers, who actually built the cluster in the first place, now had to ask permission before doing the tasks that they had simply performed on their own for many years. He pointed out that it would be idiotic to outsource a task such as pipetting, yet somehow it makes good business sense with computing.

This is the exact argument I use when trying to convince colleagues that building your own local resources is preferable to using central facilities.

For me the BioIT World site is really slow to load and riddled with CPU-hungry flash ads, but the articles are worth a read.