• Clinical Count: Partners Healthcare, Baylor, Others Offer Exome Sequencing

    SFARI | Several clinics--both academic and companies--are routinely doing exome sequencing for less than $10,000. Last week Partners Healthcare announced whole-genome sequencing for $9,000 each

    Jul 8, 2013

  • Baby Born After Next Gen Screening During IVF

    The Guardian | An IVF clinic in New Jersey that has been using Ion Torrent sequencing to screen embryos for genetic abnormalities has announce the first birth following the screening process.

    Jul 8, 2013

  • UK Launches Genomics England

    Guardian | The health secretary of the UK announced the launch of Genomics England last week. The new government organization will "oversee the creation of a genomic revolution in healthcare."

    Jul 8, 2013

  • Code Mapping: Bringing Clarity to the CPT Conundrum

    Bio-IT World | The challenges associated with CPT codes and new genomic diagnostics are well known to researchers, and the American Medical Association and McKesson say they are taking steps to simplify the process. Earlier this year, the American Medical Association and McKesson launched an agreement they hope will “bring transparency and clarity” to the CPT challenges: they are taking a series of McKesson codes—Z-Code Identifiers—and mapping the Z-Codes to existing CPT codes.

    Jul 8, 2013

  • AstraZeneca Licenses Optibrium StarDrop

    Bio-IT World Brief | AstraZeneca has licensed Optibrium’s StarDrop software globally for its researchers. The license covers StarDrop and the ADME-QSAR and Auto-Modeller modules.

    Jul 2, 2013

  • Onyx Pharma Could Draw $180 Per Share

    Forbes | Over the weekend, Onyx Pharmaceuticals stirred up speculation over a buyout. Amgen reportedly offered $120/share, and Onyx responded by issuing a call for other suitors.

    Jul 1, 2013

  • CERN Chooses Rackspace to Build Hybrid Cloud

    All Things D | CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics and the lab that invented the internet 20 years ago, is venturing into the Cloud. The lab has chosen Rackspace to build a hybrid cloud environment.

    Jul 1, 2013

  • An Appliance Built Exclusively for Galaxy

    Bio-IT World | Galaxy, the well-loved open source tool for data-intensive biomedical research, is getting some new gear. At the Galaxy User Group meeting in Oslo, Norway, BioTeam announced a new hardware appliance specifically for Galaxy:  the SlipStream Appliance: Galaxy Edition. According to the agreement with the Galaxy Project, for the next two years BioTeam will be the exclusive appliance vendor for Galaxy.

    Jun 29, 2013

  • EMC Acquires Sitrof Technologies

    CMS Wire | EMC has acquired Sitrof Technologies, a document management consultancy, to meet demand for EMC's Information Intelligence Group's new Life Sciences solutions.

    Jun 27, 2013

  • Public DNA, Private Identity

    Chemical & Engineering News | In a "found DNA" project, Heather Dewey-Hagborg is sequencing the DNA she finds around her--fallen strands of hair, discarded chewing gum--and using it to create images, and then sculptures of the owners' faces.

    Jun 27, 2013

  • Jonathan Rothberg Leaves Life Technologies, Ion Torrent

    NASDAQ | Jonathan Rothberg has resigned from Life Technologies, amid Life's attempted $13.6 billion merger with Thermo Fisher Scientific.

    Jun 26, 2013

  • Rienhoff Identifies Daughter's Mutation

    Nature News | Hugh Rienhoff's quest seems to be ending. For the past ten years, Rienhoff has been scouring the genome of his daughter, Bea. He's had candidates before, but now he's identified a mutation that isn't connected to any other disease and appears to cause Bea's symptoms.

    Jun 26, 2013

  • Patients Volunteer to Share Genetic Data for Research

    Slate | In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling on gene patents, patients are banding together to share the data that Myriad Genetics has collected over the years.

    Jun 26, 2013

  • CIA Chooses Amazon Cloud Over Cheaper Bids

    InformationWeek | In a bid for the CIA's Cloud business, Amazon wins--but not with the lowest price. IBM's bid came in lower than Amazon, but the CIA still chose AWS.

    Jun 25, 2013

  • Oracle's SAP Response

    Computerworld | Oracle's Larry Ellison is a step ahead of the game. Oracle hasn't released it's 12c database yet, but speaking on a quarterly earnings call last week, Ellison plugged database 12.1c as the most direct competitor to SAP's HANA in-memory platform

    Jun 24, 2013

  • May-June News Briefs

    Bio-IT World | News briefs and products from around the industry, including a clinical testing agreement in China, donated ALS data, an NGS developer program, a new high performance storage solution, and more.

    Jun 21, 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

  • 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

  • $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