• Obama vs the Drug Industry

    Bio-IT World Roundup | Earlier this week, a Forbes commentary by John Osborn outlined what the Obama administration "really thinks" about the biopharmaceutical industry. It's not flattering.

    Jun 20, 2013

  • Cloud's False Flexibility

    Computerworld | CIOs of big companies were bemoaning the cloud's lack of flexibility at the GigsOm Structure conference yesterday.

    Jun 20, 2013

  • $1000 Debates: the Cost of the Genome

    UT San Diego | The debate about the cost of sequencing rises again. PeerJ, a new journal, made a marketing statement mentioning a $99 genome. The comment set off Mick Watson, a genomicist, bioinformatician, and blogger.

    Jun 20, 2013

  • Gene Patent Ruling 'Confusing' Says International Commentator

    The Guardian | Many in the US applauded the Supreme Court's decision to rule against Myriad and gene patents. But internationally, pundits call the decision "confusing".

    Jun 19, 2013

  • ARM Announces Server Processor

    ReadWrite | AMD has announced its "Seattle" ARM processor for a late 2014 launch. The processor will be built specifically for servers; each chip will include a server's worth of hardware, but not storage. 

    Jun 19, 2013

  • Dealing With the Big Leak

    Nature | A major leak of genomic data is inevitable, says Steven Brenner, in a column last week in Nature. What will the outcomes be?

    Jun 18, 2013

  • China's Tianhe-2 to Take Top Supercomputing Spot

    Computerworld | China's new supercomputer, the Tianhe-2, is poised to take the top spot on the next Top500 list. The system has 3.1 million cores, with Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge chips and Xeon Phi coprocessors, and can run at 54.9 petaflops.

    Jun 17, 2013

  • Exascale Challenges, Opportunities

    Bio-IT World | The limits to exascale lie mainly in power and memory issues, said George Michaels, director of life sciences programs at Intel. Speaking at the Genome Informatics Alliance event last week, Michaels laid out the roadblocks to exascale as Intel sees them.

    Jun 14, 2013

  • Pathway Genomics Launches BRCA Tests

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Pathway Genomics wasted no time after the Supreme Court's ruling on drug patents yesterday. Yesterday the company announced that it would launch a comprehensive cancer panel next-gen sequencing panel including BRCA1 and BRCA2.

    Jun 14, 2013

  • Human Genes Not Patentable

    Wall Street Journal | The Supreme Court this morning ruled that human genes are not patentable.

    Jun 13, 2013

  • IBM Begins Restructuring Layoffs

    Bloomberg | An IBM employee organization is reporting 1,300 layoffs with possibly more to come. The company announced a $1 billion restructuring last April, which probably means 6,000-8,000 layoffs.

    Jun 13, 2013

  • Genomics and the Healthcare Revolution

    Bio-IT World | SINGAPORE—At the recent 2013 Bio-IT World Asia conference, scientists and clinicians discussed how they could better coordinate their efforts in clinical genomics and “make genomic information usable in the clinic”.

    Jun 10, 2013

  • The Changing Role of CIO

    Datanami | Keith Collins, CTO of SAS, believes the era of big analytics is upon us, and it has big implications for the way organizations run their businesses, and how CIOs function.

    Jun 10, 2013

  • Oxford Nanopore, Illumina Set Partnership End Date

    U-T San Diego | Oxford Nanopore and Illumina's partnership will end in 2016, according to Oxford's annual report. The firm end date, "adds clarity" to relationship.

    Jun 10, 2013

  • Hunting Down Culprit Genes

    Bio-IT World | SINGAPORE—At the 2013 Bio-IT World Asia conference, Professor Paul Tam described his efforts to investigate the genetic causes of rare congenital diseases, because, “any further improvement on existing medical treatment is hampered by the lack of basic understanding of how diseases arise.”

    Jun 7, 2013

  • Red Hat Releases Supported Software Collection

    Computerworld | Red Hat has released Software Collections 1.0 in beta, to give developers support while working with newer versions of Ruby, Python, PHP and Perl.

    Jun 7, 2013

  • The Data Center Question

    ReadWrite | Can Zynga's recent 18% layoffs be blamed on their data center? Maybe not exactly, but the online gaming company is an interesting case study in the value--and risks--of owning your own data center.

    Jun 7, 2013

  • GeneInsight: Genetic Knowledge to Action

    Bio-IT World | Today’s biotech grail is surely genomics in the clinic—using sequencing to inform care, treatment, and disease prevention. Implementation is easier said than done, but Partners Healthcare has been doing it since 2005. Its GeneInsight suite of applications was awarded the 2013 Bio-IT World Best Practices Editors’ Prize. 

    Jun 6, 2013

  • Global Genome Sharing Alliance Launched

    Nature News | A consortium of 69 institutions in 13 countries plans to work to enable the free flow of information in genomic medicine by developing standards and policies to encourage data-sharing of a person’s DNA sequence combined with clinical information.

    Jun 6, 2013

  • Searching for Gold: GSK’s New Search Program that Saved Them Millions

    Bio-IT World Best Practices | In 2011, the leadership in the GlaxoSmithKline’s R&D department made a troubling realization: their scientists were having a tough time finding their data. R&D engineers set about building a new search program that could search through the company’s archived electronic lab notebooks and recognize a vast library of scientific terms. The program’s capabilities earned GSK the 2013 Best Practices Award for Knowledge Management at the Bio-IT World Expo in April.

    Jun 5, 2013