• 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

  • 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