• Acquired by IBM, Aspera Pushes On To the Science DMZ

    Bio-IT World | At Aspera, it’s business as usual, Michelle Munson told Bio-IT World this morning, after the announcement that the software company’s acquisition by IBM closed. Aspera’s software development is focused on continuing to increase raw performance; improving ease of use; integration; and developing its software developer kit and APIs.

    Jan 17, 2014

  • Catching Rare Disorders in the First Months of Life

    Bloomberg | A U.S. government-funded program is enabling hundreds of infants' genomes to be sequenced in medical centers around the country.

    Jan 16, 2014

  • FDA, 23andMe, and the Democratization of Healthcare

    Nature | Robert Green and Nita Farahany take on the FDA's treatment of 23andMe in a Nature comment today. "[R]egulatory constraints might stifle consumer genomics..." the two warned.

    Jan 15, 2014

  • Ingenuity to be Rebranded QIAGEN

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Since QIAGEN acquired Ingenuity Systems, Ingenuity has since been trading under the name QIAGEN Redwood City, but QIAGEN has announced that the company will now be branded as such as well.

    Jan 15, 2014

  • What You Need to Know About Illumina's New Sequencers

    Bio-IT World | Yesterday, Illumina announced the launch of the HiSeq X "thousand dollar genome" sequencer, and the world's first benchtop high-throughput sequencer, the NextSeq 500. Bio-IT World is here to catch you up on the details and examine the hype.

    Jan 15, 2014

  • Merck's Plans for Chemists, the FDA, and Upcoming Deals

    Forbes | Matthew Herper gets Merck on the phone to discuss strategy, the FDA, and organizational changes.

    Jan 15, 2014

  • Illumina Announces the Thousand Dollar Genome

    Bio-IT World News Brief | According to Illumina CEO Jay Flatley, the thousand dollar genome is finally here, with the new HiSeq X system already in production and ready to ship this March. The sequencer will be capable of delivering five whole human genomes a day at a cost of just under $1000 apiece.

    Jan 14, 2014

  • Regeneron Partners with Clinical Network on Large Genetic Study

    Bio-IT World News Brief | By partnering with Geisinger Health Systems in Pennsylvania, pharmaceutical developer Regeneron will get access to detailed electronic health records on the 100,000 volunteers it plans to sequence over the next five years.

    Jan 14, 2014

  • Wins and Deals at JP Morgan

    Xconomy | Luke Timmerman has a good roundup of the buzz and trends at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference: deals, takeovers, and new target areas in biotech.

    Jan 13, 2014

  • 100,000 Articles - And the Data Scientists Who Mine Them

    Bio-IT World | In the wake of another record-setting year at PLOS, Bio-IT World looks behind the curtain at the metadata that helps us search through the world’s largest open access collection of scientific research.

    Jan 13, 2014

  • John Reynders on Building a Cloud-Based Biotech

    Bio-IT World | John Reynders has left big pharma to take charge of informatics at Moderna. His goal there is heady: creating a fully cloud-based biotech.

    Jan 10, 2014

  • IBM's Watson: Big Expectations

    ReadWrite | IBM hoped that Watson's its Jeopardy-winning supercomputer would be netting the company $1 billion by 2018. Yet over the last three years, the machine only brought in $100 million total.

    Jan 10, 2014

  • Insight Genetics Receives NCI Grant for Lung Cancer Test

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Insight Genetics has received a new $1.5 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), their sixth contract from NCI for companion diagnostics development.

    Jan 9, 2014

  • Powerful Algorithm Promises 'Near-Linear' Scale

    Computerworld | MIT researchers have developed a new algorithm that scales in a "near-linear" fashion and could help computers tackle larger, tougher problems much more efficiently.

    Jan 9, 2014

  • Wiley Launches Web Portal to Connect Researchers

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Academic publisher John Wiley & Sons today announced a partnership with Boston-area startup Knode to launch a cloud-based portal where users can search for experts in all fields of biomedical research.

    Jan 8, 2014

  • Vivid, Organism-Wide Maps of X-Inactivation

    Bio-IT World News Brief | A Johns Hopkins team bred female mice to carry genes for two different fluorescent proteins, one on each X chromosome, resulting in entrancing color images that show patterns of X-inactivation across the body.

    Jan 8, 2014

  • NCI to Fund Cancer Clouds for Cancer Genome Atlas

    GCN | The NCI plans to host the Cancer Genome Atlas in the cloud--all 2.5 petabytes of it. NCI plans to award three contracts to build "cancer clouds" for the project.

    Jan 7, 2014

  • Update on JAX's Genomic Medicine Initiative

    Hartford Business | By the end of the year, the Jackson Laboratory's new facility will be completed and Charles Lee will lead the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine.

    Jan 7, 2014

  • Thermo Fisher Sheds Businesses in Preparation for Life Technologies Buy

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced a $1.06 billion sale of multiple business units to GE Healthcare, as a condition of regulatory approval for Thermo Fisher's acquisition of Life Technologies.

    Jan 6, 2014

  • Informatics Tools for the Big Data Challenge

    Bio-IT World |Informatics tools are essential to enabling life sciences research, and at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference next month in San Francisco, a host of leaders across the industry will share their best practices for making sense of the wealth.

    Jan 3, 2014