• Biotech's Takeover Protection Thanks to a Few Big Investors

    Reuters | Biotech's ability to fight off Big Pharma is due to a handful of large investors that dominate the companies' shares registries.

    May 2, 2012

  • The Off-Label Drug War of Words

    Bio-IT World | The Skeptical Outsider | If knowledge is power and ignorance is bliss, what is power used to prevent knowledge from eliminating ignorance? I don’t know; ask the FDA. 

    May 1, 2012

  • UC Santa Cruz Launches Cancer Genomics Hub

    UC Santa Cruz | The University of California, Santa Cruz has established the Cancer Genomics Hub (CGHub), a large-scale data repository and user portal for the National Cancer Institute's cancer genome research programs. 

    May 2, 2012

  • IBM Cloud Used to Track Counterfeit Drugs

    eWeek | IBM and Sproxil have teamed up to use IBM's visualization, analytics, and cloud capabilities to detect and prevent drug counterfeiting. Sproxil provides patients with verification of a drug's authenticity via free text message. 

    May 1, 2012

  • Bina Technologies Wants to Remake Genome Analysis

    GigaOM | Stanford spin-out Bina Technologies emerged from stealth mode last week at the Bio-IT World Expo, aiming to bring an Apple-like business model to genomics with a unique combination of hardware and cloud technologies.  

    May 1, 2012

  • Eric Perakslis’ Informatics Prescription for FDA

    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—Eric Perakslis, recently installed as the chief information officer and chief scientist (informatics) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), gave delegates at the Bio-IT World Conference a snapshot of his new role at the agency. 

    Apr 30, 2012

  • A Broad Perspective on Genome Data at Bio-IT World Expo

    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—Jill Mesirov and Martin Leach—the Broad Institute’s chief informatics and chief information officers, respectively—stressed themes of integrative biology and big data in a twin-bill opening keynote session at the 10th anniversary Bio-IT World Conference & Expo last week. 

    Apr 30, 2012

  • April New Products

    Bio-IT World | A summary of the new products in bio-IT released in the past month--from new hybrid-core computers, to NGS software, to qPCR tools, to clinical trial management--many of which were announced at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. 

    Apr 30, 2012

  • Bio-IT World News Briefs: April

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World’s 10th Anniversary Conference and Expo wrapped up yesterday in Boston. With a record-breaking more than 2,500 attendees, the event was packed with great speakers and events. Here’s a roundup of some of the announcements and stories to come out of the event and elsewhere over the past month. 

    Apr 26, 2012

  • Open Source Health Data Repository Launched

    Nature | A project based in Kansas City, Missouri, aims to create the world's largest pool of open data about health and genomics. The data themselves will come from a variety of sources including consumer-reported direct-to-consumer genomic testing results.

    Apr 26, 2012

  • Heng Li Credits Durbin Pedigree in Accepting Franklin Award

    Bio-IT World | The Broad Institute's Heng Li became the fourth former member of the Richard Durbin lab at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to win the Benjamin Franklin Award for bioinformatics, presented this week at the Bio-IT World Expo.  

    Apr 26, 2012

  • 2012 Best of Show Winners

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World announced the winners of the Best of Show competition yesterday evening at the 2012 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston. Recentris, Opscode, Clear Trial, and Cambridge Semantics were honored. 

    Apr 26, 2012

  • Illumina Announces Basespace Genomic App Store

    Xconomy | Illumina announced an open platform for genomic apps at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo yesterday. Basespace Apps will use the Amazon cloud and let users download various genomic software options. 

    Apr 25, 2012

  • Hello Siri, Please Start My Experiment Now

    Bio-IT World | BOSTON -- BT Global Services showed the first use of Siri, the Apple iPhone’s voice-activated natural language processing technology, to launch, run and deliver the results of an experiment in the newly announced BT Cloud today at the Bio-IT World Expo. 

    Apr 25, 2012

  • Bio-It World Announces Winners of 2012 Best Practices Awards

    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—Bio-IT World announced the winners of its eighth Best Practices Awards competition this morning in a plenary session at the 2012 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston. Grand Prize winners from five life sciences awards categories included entries from three big pharma companies—Merck, Pfizer, and Merck KGaA (Germany)—and two genomics organizations, BGI Shenzhen and the University of Utah/Omicia. 

    Apr 25, 2012

  • Lombardi Lays Out His Vision for Real Time Genomics

    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—Less than two weeks into his new position as CEO of Real Time Genomics (RTG), Steve Lombardi shared some of his early vision with Bio-IT World, judging this week’s conference to be the perfect venue to make the official announcement. 

    Apr 25, 2012

  • 10,000 Names In, What the Boycott Means for Elsevier, Open Access

    The Guardian | With more than 10,000 scientists pledging to boycott Elsevier on the Cost of Knowledge website, the site's creator, Tyler Neylon, talks about open access and what will come next for scientific publishing.

    Apr 25, 2012

  • Twitter Highlights from Bio-IT World Keynotes

    Bio-IT World | The 10th Anniversary of the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo kicked off yesterday evening. With over 2,500 registered attendees, the anniversary event is already proving to be a record breaker. Opening keynote presentations by Jill P. Mesirov, Associate Director and Chief Informatics Officer; Director, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and Martin Leach, CIO, both of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard were chronicled by hundreds of tweets.

    Apr 24, 2012

  • Amazon Announces Asia Pac Beanstalk Expansion, Rumors of Data Centers in Sydney, Hong Kong

    Roundup | Amazon is expanding the availabilty of the AWS Elastic Beanstalk to Japan, making the service available to developers in the US East and now Asia Pacific regions, and Amazon's newest data centers are rumored to be in the works for Sydney and Hong Kong.

    Apr 23, 2012

  • 454, MiSeq, and PGM Go Head to Head

    Nature | A group of UK-based researchers compare the newest breed of sequencers: Roche’s 454 GS Junior, Illumina’s MiSeq and Life Technologies’ Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM). 

    Apr 23, 2012