• 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

  • Big Biotech Growing Faster than Big Pharma Says Burrill Report

    PharmaTimes | A new report from Burrill, says that Big Biotech has outpaced Big Pharma in terms of growth of sales, income, investment in R&D and market cap during the past three years.

    Apr 19, 2013

  • Flying Cars and Adaptive Drug Design: What are the Big Promises for Drug Discovery

    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—As the opening keynote at the 2013 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, Andrew Hopkins started with the hard questions: Where are the flying cars?

    Apr 18, 2013

  • Cycle Computing Releases Data Transfer and Storage Solution

    Bio-IT World | Cycle Computing has announced the release of DataManager, a new solution that schedules and manages the secure transfer and storage of data sets needed for large scale computations from lower cost cloud storage solutions, such as Amazon Glacier.

    Apr 18, 2013

  • Challenges of Software Licensing in the Cloud

    ComputerWorld | Software licenses for the Cloud present their own, unique challenges. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) present the most problems because the customer has shared control over what is run in the cloud environment.

    Apr 18, 2013

  • Out With Cloud, In With Big Data

    ReadWrite | The cloud is officially boring, analysts say. Based on Google search data, the next big thing? Big data.

    Apr 18, 2013

  • Genomics Tools for Myeloma Research

    FastCompany | Kathi Giusti and John Quackenbush discuss the number-one problem in pharma--data kept within the walls of the academic centers and within companies--and what to do about it.

    Apr 17, 2013