• NHGRI Expands Genomics Divisions

    Bio-IT World Brief | The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) announced a reorganization today to divide the Extramural Research Program into four new divisions: three genomic divisions and extramural operations. The changes will become effective on October 1.  

    Sep 10, 2012

  • Broad and AstraZeneca Launch Collaboration for Antivirals, Antibacterials

    Bio-IT World Brief | The Broad Institute and AstraZeneca are collaborating on a project to indentify new chemical compounds targeting bacterial and viral infections. Infectious and parasitic diseases are the world’s second-largest leading cause of death and disability according to the World Health Organization’s Global Burden of Disease report.  

    Sep 10, 2012

  • Australian Researchers Launch Proteome Browser

    Australian Life Sciences | As part of the Human Proteome Project, researchers from Monash University in Australia and their colleagues are developing an open-access Web interface for the proteins on chromosome 7. The proteome browser will show the quality of information available on each protein and let users drill down into the data.

    Sep 10, 2012

  • Calit2 Researcher Wins Multimedia Computing Award

    Calit2 | A UC San Diego researcher won an award for her outstanding Ph.D. dissertation in multimedia computing, communications, and applications. 

    Sep 10, 2012

  • ENCODE Inspires

    Economist | More on the ENCODE project. The Economist likens it to Keats' reaction upon reading Homer.

    Sep 10, 2012

  • Affy's Take on Microarrays Around the World

    MendelsPod | Affymetrix's VP for International Markets, Chris Barbazette, talks about genomics and arrays around the world: from China and  Saudi Arabia to Egypt and Venezuela.

    Sep 7, 2012

  • Cliff Reid Talks Errorless Sequencing

    Singularity Hub | Complete Genomics CEO Cliff Reid talks about the future of sequencing, new sequencers that will be "errorless", and the three things it will take to make whole human genome sequencing truly ubiquitous.

    Sep 7, 2012

  • Big Growth, Innovation in Rare Disease Biotech

    Forbes | Biotech innovation is thriving at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, a company focused on finding treatments that will transform the lives of patients with ultrarare diseases.

    Sep 6, 2012

  • News Briefs: EHR Certifications, Orphan Disease Market, Supercomputing Huntington's Disease

    Bio-IT World | News briefs: CCHIT Named Authorized Certification Body for EHRs; GNS Focuses Platform on Huntington’s Disease; Orphan Drug Market Outpaces Others; Roche Banks on Personalized Medicine; and Updated NGS Analysis Software.

    Sep 6, 2012

  • Databases Fight NIH Funding Cuts

    Nature | Funding cuts by the US National Library of Medicine are threatening five widely used biological databases -- Protégé, BioMagResBank, Repbase, REBASE, and CASP -- as user communities rally to save them. 

    Sep 6, 2012

  • Birney's View of ENCODE Project Papers

    Ewan's Blog | Ewan Birney, the lead analysis coordinator of the massive ENCODE genome annotation project published in 30 papers this week, offers his personal perspective of the ENCODE story uncut, from beginning to end.

    Sep 5, 2012

  • Encode: Gene Switches in 'Junk' DNA

    New York Times & Discover Magazine | Junk DNA is not useless after all. At least 80% of DNA that doesn't contain genes does still play a role in health: at least 4 million gene switches. 

    Sep 5, 2012

  • Accunet Adds NCI Data Center to its Life Science Roster

    Bio-IT World | Accunet's work designing a newly operational data center for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research could be a stepping stone in growing its business in the life sciences IT arena.

    Sep 5, 2012

  • Obama and Romney Tackle 14 Top Science Questions

    Scientific American | The two presidential candidates--Barack Obama and Mitt Romney--answer 14 questions covering some of the biggest scientific and technological challenges facing the United States.

    Sep 4, 2012

  • CLC bio Acquires Danish Drug Discovery Software Company Molegro

    Bio-IT World | The bioinformatics firm CLC bio has acquired fellow Danish company Molegro, a drug discovery software company focusing on molecular docking and protein-ligand interactions. 

    Sep 3, 2012

  • Why Big Data is Big: The Digital Nervous System

    O'Reilly Radar | Where does all the data in "big data" come from? Web companies are the forerunners. Driven by social, mobile and cloud technology, there is an important transition taking place, leading to a data-enabled world that those companies inhabit today. 

    Sep 3, 2012

  • Gemini Launch From Nimbus Signals Possibilities for Flash Storage

    Bio-IT World | Nimbus Data Systems doesn’t have a life sciences customer on a par with its marquee clients eBay and Lockheed Martin, but chances are good that the rapidly growing performance, endurance and affordability of flash storage -- as featured in Nimbus’ new Gemini system -- will soon be winning over customers

    Aug 30, 2012

  • Caltech Scientists Build Computational Model of Sea Urchin Development

    Caltech | Biologists at Caltech have built the first predictive computational model for the gene network that controls the early stages of embryonic development in the popular model organism, the sea urchin, confirming that interactions among a few dozen genes suffice to tell an embryo how to start the development of different body parts.

     

    Aug 29, 2012

  • CAP Releases Clinical Next-Gen Sequencing Checklist

    CAP Today | With more and more clinical labs turning to next-generation sequencing (NGS), the College of American Pathologists has published the United States' first standards for accrediting labs that perform NGS for clinical purposes.

    Aug 28, 2012

  • Active in Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing

    New York Times | Within a few years, Amazon.com's creative destruction of both traditional book publishing and retailing may be footnotes to the company’s larger and more secretive goal: giving anyone on the planet access to an almost unimaginable amount of computing power.  

    Aug 28, 2012