• Kevin Davies on the HGP 10th Anniversary and the March to the $1,000 Genome

    Bio-IT World | On DNA Day, April 25, a parade of leading genome scientists gathered at NIH to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP). Rounding out an outstanding list of speakers, including NIH Director Francis Collins, ENCODE project leader Ewan Birney, Princeton geneticist David Botstein and experts in evolutionary and population genetics, healthcare and cancer, was Bio-IT World editor Kevin Davies.

    May 1, 2013

  • Amazon Offers Cloud Certification

    ComputerWorld | Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a Global Certification Program to certify the technical skills associated with "building secure and reliable cloud-based applications using AWS technology," Amazon said.

    May 1, 2013

  • Back to Asia: A Sneak Peak of Bio-IT World Asia

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World is hosting its second annual Bio-IT World Asia event in Singapore at the end of May—expanded to five tracks. If the plush location at the Marina Bay Sands hotel wasn’t incentive enough, there are four days packed with essential life sciences programming covering IT infrastructure, the cloud, clinical and cancer genomics, bioinformatics and more.

    May 1, 2013

  • It’s Time for Wheels on the Big Data Sports Car

    Bio-IT World | Guest Commentary | Our ‘always-on’ digital world has made data a key resource which is fundamentally changing our lives. We’re swimming in it—oceans of it. So why are we still bemoaning a lack of open access to decision-making data and an innovation deficit? Big Data is here, so how do we make sense of this brave new world?

    Apr 30, 2013

  • NIH Seeks New ADDition in a Data Science Director

    Bio-IT World | BETHESDA, MD—With two weeks left to the application deadline, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is still searching for the ideal candidate to fill a plumb new job in biomedical data science.

    Apr 29, 2013

  • NVIDIA Cancels Latest Kepler GPU Line

    SemiAccurate | SemiAccurate reports that NVIDIA has canceled its GK11x line in its Kepler GPU family, replacing it with a reworked GK10x. The rollback is a red flag for NVIDIA, SemiAccurate says.

    Apr 29, 2013

  • What the Thermo-Life Tech Deal Means for Illumina

    Xconomy | Luke Timmerman argues that the Thermo/Life Technologies deal is only good news for Illumina. Big mergers present organizational challenges, and while Thermo and Life and sorting out the details, Illumina can carry on with its market leading technology.

    Apr 29, 2013

  • Swing Batter, Batter: GPUs and Baseball

    Bio-IT World News Brief | A pair of researchers in Japan has used NVIDIA GPUs and the CUDA parallel programming model to create a 100,000-neuron simulation of the human cerebellum. And then they taught a robot to hit a baseball. The work was begun at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, and was published online in Neural Networks last February.

    Apr 29, 2013

  • Sandy Aronson on GeneInsight

    Bio-IT World Video | Sandy Aronson, Executive Director of IT of the Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine (PCPGM), speaks with Bio-IT World Editor Kevin Davies about the GeneInsight IT platform.

    Apr 26, 2013

  • Personalizing an End to Cancer

    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—In a presentation marked by equal parts melancholy and excitement, Dr. Kevin Hrusovsky spoke at the 2013 Bio-IT World Expo on some of the recent advancements and setbacks in cancer therapeutics.

    Apr 26, 2013

  • Big Data, Big Loopholes

    Computerworld | Big data can be a big security headache. The biggest security loophole? The Hadoop cluster, according to security company Zettaset.

    Apr 25, 2013

  • Opscode, IBM to Offer Chef Server in IBM SmartCloud

    eWeek | Opscode, the maker of open-source automation platform Chef, is collaborating with IBM. IBM will support Chef Server in IBM SmartCloud.

    Apr 25, 2013

  • AWS Increases Security Offerings

    Computerworld | Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning to increase the level of protection users can get in its cloud with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption features.

    Apr 24, 2013

  • John Halamka on the Future State of Care

    Bio-IT World Video | Major changes loom on the horizon for health care. John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center shares his outlook on the future state of care with Bio-IT World Editor-in-Chief, Kevin Davies.

    Apr 24, 2013

  • Watson's Coming Challenges

    Forbes | The challenges for IBM's Watson extend beyond just knowing the scientific literature. That part is easy for the supercomputer.

    Apr 24, 2013

  • GSK Invests in Drug Discovery Startups

    Xconomy | GlaxoSmithKline is providing as much as $465 million in startup funds for Avalon Ventures to invest in drug-discovery companies over the next three years.

    Apr 23, 2013

  • Roche Shuts Down Third-Generation NGS Research Programs

    Bio-IT World | News that Roche is merging and laying off some 170 workers in Germany and Branford, CT, does not bode well for its efforts to reclaim some momentum in next-generation sequencing.

    Apr 23, 2013

  • AstraZeneca Builds Up Swedish R&D Potential

    Bio-IT World | Astra Zeneca continues to build up its R&D potential. The company announced its plans to strengthen its relationship with the Stockholm-based Karolinska Institute (KI), one of Europe's largest and most prestigious medical universities.

    Apr 23, 2013

  • Big Investments Behind Precision Medicine

    New York Times | Major medical centers are gearing up for a push for precision medicine. Skeptics would claim it's all a bit premature. But Robert C. Green at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston counters, "What was there to look up on the Internet when the first person got a personal computer? Very little.”

    Apr 23, 2013

  • Deanna Church on the Reference Genome Past, Present and Future

    Bio-IT World | Few have spent as much time gazing upon the Reference as Deanna Church at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Bio-IT World editor Kevin Davies skyped with Church to hear her personal assessment of the current state of the Reference, the degree of progress in the past decade and priorities for the future.

    Apr 21, 2013