BioSolr begins with a workshop day

Last Thursday we attended a workshop day at the European Bioinformatics Institute as part of our joint BioSolr project. This was an opportunity for us to give some talks on particular aspects of Apache Lucene/Solr and hear from the various teams there on how they are using the software. The workshop was oversubscri...Continue reading

Cambridge Search Meetup – Knowledge Discovery & Wayfinding

We were lucky enough to have two speakers from Cambridge text mining company Linguamatics at last night's Meetup. Robin Newton kicked us off with an amusing and idiosyncratic view of the uses and mis-uses of search - starting with the problem that when you have text search software, every problem can look like search might solve it. He gave an example of his recent search for a new job: although matching ...Continue reading

BioSolr – building better search for bioinformatics

The entire Flax technical team spent the day at the European Bioinformatics Institute yesterday discussing an exciting new project we'll begin this coming September, BioSolr. Funded by the BBSRC this collaboration between Flax and the EBI aims “to significantly advance the state of the art with regard to indexing and querying biomedical data with freely available open source software”. Continue reading