• Just How Significant is p=.05?

    Bio-IT World News Brief | A paper published today in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that many irreproducible findings in the scientific literature may be the result of a too-lenient standard for establishing statistical significance.

    Nov 12, 2013

  • Illumina Names New President: Francis deSouza

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina today announced that Francis deSouza will take on the role of President, reporting to CEO Jay Flatley. deSouza will lead Illumina's business units and the core functions responsible for envisioning, developing and producing the company’s products. He will join the team in December.

    Nov 11, 2013

  • Microfabrication Leveraged Toward Single-Cell Genomics

    Nature Biotechnology | Researchers at the Bioengineering Department of the University of California, San Diego, have made progress in bringing single-cell genome sequencing to a level of precision on par with multi-cell approaches.

    Nov 11, 2013

  • Advice on Computational Biology

    Nature Biotechnology | Nick Loman and Mick Watson give advice on becoming a computational biologist. Among their tips: set traps for your own scripts and other people's.

    Nov 11, 2013

  • Drug Development Over the Past 20 Years

    In the Pipeline | PLOSOne has posted a new paper tracking drug development over the past 20 years looking at patents and publications. The data shows--among other things--a peak in patents in 2008, and since then a decline.

    Nov 11, 2013

  • IBM to Beat Amazon at Cloud?

    Computerworld | IBM will beat Amazon Web Services, claims a Computerworld opinion piece. Amazon isn't, at heart, an IT services company.

    Nov 11, 2013

  • UC Santa Cruz Wins DREAM Breast Cancer Challenge

    Bio-IT World News Brief | A team of bioinformatics experts at UC Santa Cruz made the most accurate predictions in a competitive challenge to identify signaling networks in breast cancer cells. The results of the HPN-DREAM breast cancer network inference challenge were announced today in Toronto.

    Nov 8, 2013

  • DNASTAR Opens for Business in BaseSpace

    Bio-IT World | One year after the release of DNASTAR’s first cloud application, the desktop genome analysis company has developed cloud capabilities for its enterprise software suite, and now a commercial presence inside BaseSpace.

    Nov 8, 2013

  • Sometimes You Can Trust a Rat

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The results of the second sbv IMPROVER challenge have delivered a surprising level of validation for rodent models of genetic pathways in human cells.

    Nov 8, 2013

  • A Year-End Flurry of Activity at Ion Torrent

    Bio-IT World | November and December are shaping up to be big months for the next-generation sequencing company, as four new products to speed up and refine the sequencing workflow are scheduled for early release in the coming weeks.

    Nov 8, 2013

  • Crispr Cuts and Stitches

    Independent | Crispr, the unwieldy acronym for palindromic repeats in DNA, was thought to be junk DNA for years. Turns out, that is definitely not the case.

    Nov 7, 2013

  • EMC Sues Pure Storage

    Computerworld | EMC has sued Pure Storage for colluding with former employees to collect EMC information and trade secrets.

    Nov 6, 2013

  • Biodatomics' Open Source Approach

    Bio-IT World | A number of open source informatics tools have grown popular with genetic researchers performing specific workflows. Now, Biodatomics thinks the market is ready to scale up to an open source end-to-end genomic analysis platform.

    Nov 6, 2013

  • 'HaploSeq' Pins Variants to Their Chromosomes

    Nature Biotechnology | To RNAseq and ChIPseq, add HaploSeq: a new sequencing method that not only identifies variants in an individual's genome, but also links them together into haplotypes.

    Nov 4, 2013

  • tranSMART Launches Demo with BT, Membership Drive

    Bio-IT World | The past few weeks tranSMART has launched its membership program and announced a joint cloud computing initiative with BT. It’s a busy season for non-profit.

    Nov 4, 2013

  • Illumina's Non-Invasive Prenatal Test Offered to Pregnant Women in California

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina’s verifi prenatal test will be offered to pregnant women in California through the state’s Prenatal Screening Program. Beginning today, all pregnant women in California at increased risk of carrying a fetus with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) or trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome), or who have had an ultrasound showing a large nuchal translucency, will have the option of receiving a non-invasive prenatal test.

    Nov 1, 2013

  • Intel Opens Parallel Computing Center in Tennessee

    Oak Ridge Today | The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, (UT) has received a grant from Intel to develop computer codes to enable personalized medicine. The funding will open an Intel Parallel Computing Center at the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, or JICS, at UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

    Nov 1, 2013

  • The Next Evolution of BaseSpace

    Bio-IT World | With the rapid expansion of BaseSpace over the past two years, Illumina has been betting on the cloud as a future hub of cutting-edge genetic research. Now, new moves to encourage app developers to move into BaseSpace, along with the acquisition of NextBio, are expanding the range and power of the company's cloud-based analytics.

    Nov 1, 2013

  • ASHG: A Presenter's Perspective

    MassGenomics | Dan Koboldt, who attended ASHG last week to discuss his work identifying pathogenic variants in families, shares his impressions from the meeting.

    Oct 31, 2013

  • Genia Touts $100 Genome in Shenzhen

    Opiniomics Blog | Mick Watson is reporting on ICG8 from Shenzhen when he has the internet access, and he says Genia presented their single molecule sequencer. The instrument will cost less than $1000 and will be able to sequence human genomes for less than $100.

    Oct 31, 2013