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Some fun news from Hin-Tak Leung, if you have not heard that name before, please take the time to check out this article:

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Hin-Tak checks in again to mention that Grid Engine was one of the enabling technologies in the work that produced today's media fascination with the discovery of a gene linked to human obesity.

Hin-Tak Leung says:

Sorry this is not quite about the gridengine development, but I think some of you want to hear about "grid engine usage success stories", and as some of you know, we (the people I work with) do use the Sun Grid Engine quite heavily for analyzing genomic data. I knew some of our work will be in the newspaper eventually, but I haven't never thought that the media would focus on one particular finding, nor that half of the UK newspaper carried it on front page...

Today (friday 13th):
The Times: 'Fat' gene found by scientists
The Daily Telegraph: Scientists find the gene that makes you fat
Daily Express: Secret of Why we pile on the pounds
Daily Mail: There is an obesity gene

"One of the bosses" appeared in channel 5 news (UK TV channel) this evening.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1647517.ece http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1647178.ece http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6547891.stm http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,265781,00.html http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/070412/12health.obesity.htm

Thanks the Sun people and all the contributors for the good work on SGE.

Hin-Tak Leung