• 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

  • Illumina Launches Genomics Accelerator

    Xconomy | Illumina is creating a genomics-focused accelerator at its Mission Bay R&D facility under construction in San Francisco.

    Feb 13, 2014

  • GenomOncology Announces Collaborations, Partnerships Before AGBT

    Bio-IT World | GenomOncology has announced several collaborations and partnerships surrounding its step-by-step workflow that takes raw data from the sequencer and translates the molecular profile of each patient’s tumor genome into an actionable clinical report. Recent partnerships include Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, and CompanionDx.

    Feb 12, 2014

  • QuantuMDx Launches MolDx Indiegogo Campaign

    Bio-IT World | QuantuMDx is taking their handheld molecular diagnostic tool to the masses, and hoping to raise $50,000 in an Indiegogo campaign starting today. The money will support a malaria clinical trial in Africa. 

    Feb 12, 2014

  • AWS to Offer Enterprise R Package

    Computerworld | Amazon Web Services is now hosting R and offering it to users to run on AWS using the commercial package of R--Revolution R Enterprise 7.

    Feb 11, 2014

  • Bina Pushes Toward Clinic with New SAB Members

    Bio-IT World | Bina Technologies has announced an expanded Scientific Advisory Board including three new clinical genomicists and a bioinformatician. The additions herald an increased interest in clinical genomics space.

    Feb 10, 2014