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Day: January 28, 2015
How Google's supercharged Chromebook Files app will blend offline with online
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“Files are so 1990,” said Google’s Sundar Pichai back in 2008 . “I don’t think we need files anymore.” Source: Tech
Rcount: simple and flexible RNA-Seq read counting
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Summary: Analysis of differential gene expression by RNA sequencing is frequently done using feature counts, i.e. the number of reads mapping to a gene. However, commonly used count algorithms do not address the problem of reads aligning with multiple locations in the genome or reads aligning with positions where two or more genes overlap .…
Netflix on How to Build Services That Scale Beyond Millions of Users
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How Netflix plans to use microservices as it redesigns its cloud-based systems to cope with exponential growth in its userbase. Read more at TechRepublic Cloud Source: Linux
CliQr Extends Leading CloudCenter Platform to Include Deployment and…
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Combined with CliQr’s existing abilities to migrate, manage and govern a broad range of new or existing applications across any private or public cloud, the additional support of Docker gives developers and IT the ability to manage the full lifecycle of deploying and managing single, multiple and “composite” container/VM application configurations on any private or…
New GHOST Scaring Linux Users
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The top story today is the news that a major security vulnerability has existed in glibc since version 2.2. In other news, Charles H. Schulz previews LibreOffice 4.4 and Bruce Byfield looks at the state of Linux desktops. Speaking of desktops, KDE announced Plasma 5.2 saying it “adds a number of new components, many new…