• BitSpeed Pushes Software Solutions for High-Speed Data Transfer

    Bio-IT World | Transporting big data is a big problem, but an LA-based start-up called BitSpeed believes its software tools, based on TCP (transmission control protocol), can provide a viable and cost-effective solution for life sciences organizations.

    Feb 7, 2013

  • Cycle Computing CTO James Cuff on Clouds, On-Demand Computing and Package Holidays

    Bio-IT World | The new Chief Technology Officer at Cycle Computing, James Cuff, spent the past seven years as working “at the interface of science and advanced computing technologies,” providing a breadth of high-performance computing, storage and software expertise, all the while striving to manage a monstrous surge in data. In his new position, Cuff aims to apply some of his insights and ideas to an even bigger canvas. Cuff spoke to Bio-IT World editor Kevin Davies and shared his views about big data, cloud computing, and the future of research computing.

    Feb 6, 2013

  • Pan-European Biological Infrastructure Director Named

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Niklas Blomberg has been named the Founding Director of ELIXIR, the pan-European infrastructure for biological information that officially entered its implementation phase in January 2013.

    Feb 6, 2013

  • Dell's Buyout to Open Doors for HP?

    Computerworld | When Dell finalized its buyout, it opening the door for HP to take over customers, HP said yesterday in a statement. The statement comes amid rumors that HP's board is also considering major changes to the company.

    Feb 6, 2013

  • Merck Shares Fall After Q4 Reports

    Philly.com | Merck has been downgraded by analysts due to struggles with Vytorin and Zocor. Q4 results announced last week raised questions about the drugs success and led to a 2.3% fall in share places.

    Feb 5, 2013

  • IBM Moves Watson Technology to Servers

    Computerworld | IBM is moving some of the hardware and software technology behind Watson to the company's new Power Express servers. Companies can use the new servers to analyze warehouses of data, and to answer complex queries with high levels of confidence.

    Feb 5, 2013

  • EMC Supports 4 TB Drives

    HPCwire | EMC today announced support for 4 terabyte drives for EMC Isilon's industry-leading scale-out NAS solutions.

    Feb 4, 2013

  • Opscode Releases Chef 11

    TechCrunch | Opscode has delivered Chef 11 with the help of Facebook. Chef 11 has been rewritten with the Erlang programming language and the PostgreSQL database.

    Feb 4, 2013

  • Courtagen Leverages Level 3 to Provide Direct Access to Amazon Cloud

    Bio-IT World | WOBURN, MASS.—Although it didn’t require digging up any local roads in the end, a small biotech company has struck a partnership in life sciences with Level 3 Communications to create a seamless and secure data link that pipes genomic data directly from its laboratory just outside Boston to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud facility in Ashburn, Northern Virginia.

    Feb 4, 2013

  • NetApp Eyes Opportunities in Health Care Data Storage

    Bio-IT World | Whatever happened to NetApp? When Bio-IT World launched in 2002, NetApp was one of the big names in big data storage in the biotech and life sciences arena. But over the past decade, while brand names such as Isilon, EMC, BlueArc, Quantum, Panasas, DDN and many others have cashed in on the data deluge, NetApp kept at best a very low profile in the space. But there are strong signs that NetApp is turning things around.

    Feb 1, 2013

  • Selventa Says Systems Diagnostics is Key to Harnessing Patient Data

    Bio-IT World | To hear any CEO claim that their company has become “the premier big data analytics company focused on personalized healthcare” might raise an eyebrow or two. When the company in question is a small software firm that underwent a name change just 18 months ago, that is certainly the case.

    Jan 31, 2013

  • Life Tech Helps ID Libyan Remains

    U-T San Diego | Life Technologies is assisting in an effort to identify tens of thousands of remains found in mass graves in Libya. Life Tech is donating infrastructure, including the expertise, training, and the forensic instruments and materials to validate the workflow and process DNA samples from about 20,000 people.

    Jan 30, 2013

  • PLOS and Dryad Assign DOIs to PLOS Genetics Articles

    PLOS Blog | PLOS and Dryad are expanding their integration to PLOS Genetics. The partnership applies data identiers (DOIs) to data "packages" associated with published articles so authors, editors, and readers can access underlying data along with the published results.

    Jan 30, 2013

  • Computational Challenges of Protein Function Prediction

    News Brief | A worldwide effort encompassing 102 researchers and students from 30 research groups working over 2 years tackled the computational challenges of protein function prediction. The results were published this week in Nature Methods.

    Jan 29, 2013

  • Oracle's IaaS Plans

    InformationWorld | Oracle shared their infrastructure-as-a-service plan yesterday in a conference call with the press. The plan would boost the company's hardware usage while building its cloud subscription numbers.

    Jan 29, 2013

  • Bio-IT World Expo Preview: Managing Big Data on Genome’s 10th Anniversary

    Bio-IT World | This April welcomes the return of the Bio-IT World Expo in Boston (April 9-11, 2013). Over the course of three days, researchers from academia and industry will discuss themes of big data, cloud computing, trends in IT infrastructure, omics technologies, high-performance computing, data analytics and precision medicine, from the research realm to the clinical arena.

    Jan 29, 2013

  • In Conversation: Ashley Van Zeeland, CEO Cypher Genomics

    Bio-IT World | The genome interpretation field gets a little more interesting this week with the news that Cypher Genomics, a software start-up co-founded by a notable quartet of Scripps Institute physicians and scientists, is launching its beta access program. The San Diego company was launched by cardiologist Eric Topol, mathematical geneticist Nicholas Schork, bioinformatician Ali Torkamani, and neuroscientist Ashley Van Zeeland, the company’s CEO. Bio-IT World editor Kevin Davies recently spoke to Van Zeeland to learn about the company’s goals and core strengths.

    Jan 28, 2013

  • Broad Updates GATK Licenses

    Bio-IT World Roundup | The Broad has again updated their GATK licenses. In October, Broad announced that commercial users of the GATK would need commercial licenses from Appistry to use GATK 2.0. The move drew complaints from the community.

    Jan 28, 2013

  • Hadoop to be in Most Advanced Analytics by 2015

    Computerworld | A Gartner study says the Hadoop programming framework will be the dominant framework in large-scale data analytics by 2015.

    Jan 25, 2013

  • January Product and News Briefs

    Bio-IT World | Briefs for January include news briefs from ERT, Flatiron Health, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Mayo Clinic, CDISC; new products from PerkinElmer; and more.

    Jan 25, 2013