What we do...
We sponsor and support high-quality & affordable IT conferences and seminars across the Southeast.
We organized the first ever CloudCamp RTP in Carrboro, NC.
We also support open source software tools for scientific researchers.
Academic Data Services LLC is a privately held company based in Durham, NC. We have no formal or informal ties to any particular educational institution.
“When research is mission critical, responding to researchers’ evolving information technology (IT) needs is key to acquiring funding, attracting top faculty and students, and serving local, national, and global communities. The importance of meeting such needs to the retention, morale, and productivity of researchers—including faculty, staff, and students—should not be underestimated.”
“Data analysis is replacing data generation as the rate-limiting step in scientific research.”
“If it’s 50,000 genomes in 2011 (50x increase from 2010), it’s totally reasonable to believe that capacity will grow to 250,000 genomes by 2012 – that’s only a 5x increase from the previous year. Call 2013 a 4x increase over 2012 – that’s a capacity to sequence 1 million genomes, just three years from now. The only thing in the way of this explosive growth is our ability to absorb the new capacity – and that gets directly to tools that can analyze the data. As the number of genomes increases exponentially, the types of questions we’ll ask of this data will change dramatically. We’re in the middle of an incredible revolution that will move more quickly than many of us appreciate.”
