• Fetal Circulating DNA Tests Appropriate for All Pregnancies

    Forbes | A quick overview of using fetal circulating cells to test for trisomy 21 and trisomy 18, which accurately predicted trisomies in young, healthy pregnancies.

    Mar 10, 2014

  • Medicine in the Age of Supercomputers

    Bloomberg | Eric Schadt discusses how supercomputing will change medicine: first in handling ever-increasing data sizes and second in building predictive models of disease.

    Mar 7, 2014

  • Craig Venter Speaks with Eric Topol on the Future of Genomic Medicine

    Bio-IT World Roundup | Just days after the announcement of his new company, Human Longevity, Craig Venter sat down with Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute to discuss the future of genomic medicine.

    Mar 7, 2014

  • Goals for the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health

    Nature News | The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health was established to link genotypes with phenotypes to discover mechanisms of disease. The group just had their first official meeting.

    Mar 6, 2014

  • Broad Releases Updates to GenePattern

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The Broad Institute has released an updated version of GenePattern, the Institute’s open-source genome sequence analysis software with user-requested fixes and updates including a new user interface.

    Mar 5, 2014

  • Chinese Government Bans Sequence-Based Testing

    Forbes Asia | The Chinese government has banned domestic hospitals and other medical and health institutions from providing genetic tests to customers, specifically mentioning prenatal DNA tests, raising questions about the future of Chinese sequencing.

    Mar 5, 2014

  • J. Craig Venter's Latest Venture Has Ambitions Across Human Lifespan

    Bio-IT World | J. Craig Venter today announced the launch of a new company, Human Longevity, Inc., that aims to promote healthy aging by building the world's largest and most wide-reaching genome sequencing center.

    Mar 4, 2014

  • PacBio's Rise from the Hype Ashes

    Xconomy | PacBio seduced investors with a promise of revolution, Xconomy's Luke Timmerman says. Their first predictions failed, but now PacBio is making a name for itself

    Mar 4, 2014

  • Accelrys’ ScienceCloud Offers Route to Cloud Computing, Collaboration

    Bio-IT World | On the heels of its acquisition announcement, Accelrys launched the ScienceCloud last month, a SaaS-based information management and collaboration workspace hosted by BT Global. ScienceCloud currently boasts five applications, including a Mobile Data Capture App just announced this morning.

    Mar 3, 2014

  • Google Joins Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, Proposes API

    Google Research Blog | Yesterday on the Google Research Blog, the company announced that it has joined the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health

    Feb 28, 2014

  • Internet2 for George Washington University to Facilitate Genomics Work

    Washington Business Journal | George Washington University is stepping up their genome analysis thanks to a 100-gigabit-per-second link to the Internet2 Network.

    Feb 28, 2014

  • Genome in a Bottle Benchmark Published

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The Genome in a Bottle Consortium benchmark has been published in Nature Biotechnology, revealing how the arbitrated between different data sets when deciding which calls were accurate, and spells out the reasons for excluding certain genomic regions.

    Feb 26, 2014

  • Quick NGS to Save a Life

    Omics! Omics! Blog | On his Omics! Omics! blog, Keith Robison recounts a diagnostic odyssey shared at AGBT, that raises some interesting questions.

    Feb 26, 2014

  • Illumina Tops Smartest Companies

    Technology Review | MIT's Technology Review released its 50 smartest companies and lists Illumina at the top of the pack, beating Google, Dropbox, IBM, and a host of other big tech.

    Feb 24, 2014

  • Coriell Life Sciences Prepares for the Whole-Genome Health Environment

    Bio-IT World | After studying patient and physician reactions to personal sequencing services for six years, the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative has spun out a new company devoted to storing and interpreting users’ whole genomes through life.

    Feb 24, 2014

  • BGI Plans IPO for BGI Tech

    Bloomberg News | BGI Tech, part of BGI, is planning a $400 initial public offering. The IPO will take place in Hong Kong.

    Feb 21, 2014

  • Bold Claims as GenapSys Opens Early Access to GENIUS

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Last week at AGBT 2014, GenapSys opened an early access program for researchers to test out the company's GENIUS sequencer, an instrument the size of a tablet that the company claims will be highly competitive on both speed and cost.

    Feb 19, 2014

  • Novel Encryption Scheme Aims to Secure Genetic Data

    ScienceNow | Kristin Lauter of Microsoft has demonstrated a new security scheme for genetic data that allows the data to be mined for information while still encrypted.

    Feb 19, 2014

  • N-of-One and Appistry Announce Partnership

    Boston Business Journal | N-of-One and Appistry have partnered to more easily bring N-of-One's diagnostics plans to health care organizations.

    Feb 18, 2014

  • Patient Stratification in Clinical Trials Emerges as Theme at MMTC

    Bio-IT World | The 21st annual Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference in San Francisco featured some intense scrutiny of one area where genetic knowledge is ready to make an impact today: better defining the best patient populations for treatment during clinical trials.

    Feb 17, 2014