• 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

  • John Boyce Previews the Consumer Genetics Conference

    CGC | John Boyce, CEO GnuBio and the co-founder of The Consumer Genetics Conference, discusses the history behind this successful show and previews the highlights of the 2012 program, being held October 3-5 in Boston. 

    Aug 27, 2012

  • The Unsung Heroes Behind Those Big Genomics Breakthroughs

    The Guardian | A core facility is a slightly unusual niche for a career scientist – not an independent researcher, not a lecturer, but more like running a small-to-medium sized biotechnology company that happens to be not-for-profit. 

    Aug 27, 2012

  • From Google to Flatiron Health and the Fight Against Cancer

    Business Insider | After selling their start-up, Invite Media, to Google for $81 million, Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg have founded a new company, Flatiron Health, aimed at devising ways to help mine clinical data and cure cancer. 

    Aug 24, 2012

  • Video: Nancy Kelley on the New York Genome Center

    Bio-IT World | Video: Nancy Kelley, founding executive director of the New York Genome Center, speaks on camera with Bio-IT World editor Kevin Davies about the rapid progress and future plans for the new genome center currently under construction in the SoHo district of Manhattan.

    Aug 23, 2012

  • Klebsiella Pneumoniae Superbug Killed Six at NIH Clinical Center

    Huffington Post | Scientists are reporting how next-generation sequencing identified a deadly antibiotic-resistant 'superbug' that spread alarmingly through the medical center at the NIH, ultimately claiming six lives before the source of infection was confirmed and the microbe eradicated.

    Aug 22, 2012

  • deCODE Study Finds Older Dads Pass On More Genetic Mutations

    Wall Street Journal | According to the latest publication from Iceland's deCODE Genetics, a sequencing study reveals that older fathers pass on more new genetic mutations to their children than younger fathers, thus increasing their children's risk of autism, schizophrenia and other diseases.

    Aug 22, 2012

  • QED: Hopkins Algorithm Ranks the Beauty of Drug Chemistry

    Bio-IT World | Companies such as Optibrium are praising the “Quantitative Estimate of Drug-Likeness” (QED) algorithm to rank chemical compounds based on their oral bioavailability, developed by the University of Dundee's Andrew Hopkins and colleagues.

    Aug 21, 2012

  • Amazon Web Services Launches Amazon Glacier Archival Storage

    Bio-IT World | How does 1 cent/Gigabyte sound? That's the potential pricepoint of Amazon's new Amazon Glacier archival storage solution designed for data archiving and backup that is already gaining the attention of companies such as Complete Genomics. 

    Aug 21, 2012

  • The Biophysics of 3-D Genome Modeling

    Wired | Harvard University biophysicist Erez Lieberman Aiden is helping to open new windows into the study of the 3-D topological structure of chromosomes.

    Aug 20, 2012