• What Should We Make of BaseSpace?

    Bio-IT World | BaseSpace, Illumina's informatics app store, is an experimental model for the analysis of genetic data. Bio-IT World asks Illumina's Jordan Stockton how the multi-developer platform will fit the needs of high-volume labs that need coherent, flexible workflows.

    Mar 11, 2014

  • Acid-Induced Stem Cell Paper Questioned by Author

    New York Times | One of the Japanese team who published results in Nature in January claiming to have induced stem cells via an acid bath is calling for the paper's retraction.

    Mar 11, 2014

  • Protein Data Bank Guardian Named 2014 Franklin Award Winner

    Bio-IT World | Jeff Bizzaro, Chairman of Bioinformatics.org, today announced that Helen M. Berman, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is the 2014 Benjamin Franklin Award winner. 

    Mar 10, 2014

  • 23andMe CEO Stresses Medical Insights in Face of Slowing Enrollment

    The Guardian | At the SXSW Festival in Austin yesterday, Anne Wojcicki acknowledged that the recent FDA action prohibiting her company from reporting health information to customers “has slowed up the number of people signing up” for the personal genotyping service.

    Mar 10, 2014

  • 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