• 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

  • How to Accelerate Rare Disease Research? Write a Dictionary

    Bio-IT World | The International Consortium for Human Phenotype Terminologies has announced an agreement between the major players in rare genetic disease research to use a fixed set of terms for human phenotypes, allowing computers to make rapid comparisons of patients and disease presentations across far-flung databases.

    Oct 30, 2013

  • 2014 Bio-IT World Best Practices Call for Entries is Open

    Bio-IT World | The 2014 Bio-IT World Best Practices competition has released its call for entries. The advanced deadline for entry is February 10, 2014; the early deadline is December 16, 2013.

    Oct 29, 2013

  • Budget Cuts and the Titans of Technology

    NPR | The Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is no longer the number one supercomputer in the world. On its own, a shift in the supercomputing rankings is not surprising. But Thom Mason, director of Oak Ridge, is afraid America may soon slip permanently behind.

    Oct 29, 2013

  • Research Highlights from the ASHG 2013 Annual Meeting

    Bio-IT World | The American Society of Human Genetics held its annual meeting in Boston last week, bringing together thousands of genetics professionals from around the world. Here's what you might have missed.

    Oct 28, 2013

  • Decoding Autism

    Genomes Unzipped | Last year a paper was published claiming a simple genetic test could predict autism risk from birth. Many felt that the paper illustrated the pitfalls of pursuing genetic risk prediction.

    Oct 28, 2013

  • Illumina Acquires NextBio

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Santa Clara-based NextBio. NextBio's powerful big-data platforms aggregate and analyze large quantities of phenotypic and genomic data for research and clinical applications.

    Oct 28, 2013