Bio-IT World April 29, 2019
At his 2019 Trends from the Trenches address at the recent Bio-IT World Congress & Expo in Boston, BioTeam co-founder and senior director of infrastructure Chris Dagdigian shared his pearls of wisdom on the current state of scientific computing, a field where incompetence is now an “existential survival threat” to life science organizations. “We’ve done ‘OK’ entering the data-intensive science era, he says. “The hard part is managing what we have.”
Dagdigian began by sharing a few general observations, notably that leadership still views scientific computing as a “cost center to be minimized” rather than a core competitive differentiator and HR recruitment and retention tool where insights and value routinely get extracted from data. The user base is also climbing...