• What Biotech Can Learn from Gamers

    Bio-IT World Video | Martin Leach opened his talk at the Bio-IT World Expo with, "And now for something completely different..."

    Jul 27, 2011

  • BGI Researchers Publish New Structural Variation Pipeline, Push for De Novo Assembly

    Bio-IT World | BGI researchers just released the single-nucleotide resolution structural variations (SVs) of an Asian and African genome discovered de novo genome assembly. The research was published online on Tuesday in Nature Biotechnology.

    Jul 26, 2011

  • Dell Offers Cloud Services in Singapore

    Bio-IT World | SINGAPORE—Dell announced the launch of the Dell Solution Center (DSC) in Singapore, today, one of twelve DSCs launching globally in 2011, and the only site in South Asia.

    Jul 22, 2011

  • Oxford Nanopore Opens Cambridge Bioinformatics Hub

    Business Weekly | Oxford Nanopore has opened a new office in Cambridge, UK, to help recruit "the best informaticians," suggesting it may be hoping to lure some talent from the European Bioinformatics Institute and other premier organizations in the region.

    Jul 21, 2011

  • A Sequencing Squabble over Ion Torrent’s Stanford Licenses

    Bio-IT World | As Ion Torrent publishes details of its destop sequencing technology in Nature this week, charges continue to fly over the intellectual credit for some of the key technology that Ion Torrent exclusively licensed from Stanford University’s Office of Technology Licensing.  

    Jul 20, 2011

  • Drug Discovery with Computational Chemistry

     Technology Review | Nimbus Discovery is using computational chemistry to drive the drug discovery process.  

    Jul 19, 2011

  • Ignite Institute Finds a Match at Fox Chase

    Bio-IT World | Following the demise of plans to locate the Ignite Institute for Individualized Health in Northern Virginia, the institute has found a new home as part of a three-way partnership with Life Technologies at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.  

    Jul 18, 2011

  • Knome Assists Canadian Team Identify Parkinson’s Disease Gene

    Bio-IT World | An international consortium led by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada, with a major assist from the genome analysis company Knome, have used exome sequencing to identify the sixth known inherited gene defect causing Parkinson’s disease (PD).  

    Jul 14, 2011

  • Updated Accelrys Discovery Studio Targets Protein Aggregation

    Bio-IT World | With the latest release of its flagship modeling and simulation software, Discovery Studio, Accelrys is hoping to boost scientific collaboration and efficiency, as well as address a major challenge in the development of biotherapeutics. 

    Jul 13, 2011

  • “Ending Diagnostic Odysseys”: A Bio-IT World Podcast

    Bio-IT World | In this exclusive podcast, recorded at the Copenhagenomics conference last month, Liz Worthey (Medical College Wisconsin) discusses the widely publicized case of the clinical genome sequencing of Nicholas Volker, the challenges of data analysis, and how that experience has provided the foundation for ongoing clinical genome sequencing efforts. 

    Jul 11, 2011

  • CLC bio Expands Software Trial for Mini Next-Gen Sequencers

    Bio-IT World | Anticipating a flood of new customers for three dynamic new bench top next-gen sequencing instruments, Danish software company CLC bio is extending the trial period for its flagship NGS software product to six months.   

    Jul 7, 2011

  • BGI Announces Cloud Genome Assembly Service

    Bio-IT World | SHENZHEN, CHINA—At the BGI Bioinformatics Software Release Conference yesterday, researchers announced two new Cloud-based software-as-a-service offerings for next-gen data analysis. Hecate and Gaea (named for Greek gods) are “flexible computing” solutions for do novo assembly and genome resequencing. 

     

    Jul 6, 2011

  • Ashburner, Troyanskaya Win ISCB Computational Biology Awards

    PLoS Computational Biology | The International Society for Computational Biology has given its 2011 senior scientist award to British geneticist Michael Ashburner (University of Cambridge, UK), while the Overton Prize for a young scientist making a significant impact in the field goes to Princeton's Olga Troyanskaya.

    Jul 5, 2011

  • Navigenics Settles Junk DNA Lawsuit with Genetic Technologies

    Herald Sun | "Genetic Technologies has brought another large US company to its knees in a drive to stamp its ownership on a type of DNA testing" is how Melbourne's Herald Sun portrays the news of another patent settlement engineered by the Australian firm, this time with personal genomics company Navigenics.

    Jun 29, 2011

  • Lilly Pledges Millions to Biotech

    Bloomberg | Yesterday Eli Lilly announced plans to make a mulitmillion-dollar investment in its biotech business, but declined to give a specific number.

    Jun 29, 2011

  • Genomics and Risk

    Economist | What do genomics mean for health insurance and equality in health care? Will knowing that you're responsive to a certain drug increase your premiums (you'll live longer, more bills) or decrease them (quicker treatment)?

    Jun 29, 2011

  • Sequencing Devils to Save a Species

    USA Today | Scientists from Penn State and the J. Craig Venter Institute have sequenced the genomes of Cedric and Spirit, a pair of Tasmanian Devils, in the hopes of saving the marsupial species that is threatened with extinction due to the rapid spread of an infectious facial cancer.

    Jun 28, 2011

  • Researchers Cry Foul on Ion Torrent License and Inventors’ Rights

    Bio-IT World |  A pair of former advisors to Ion Torrent Systems, the semiconductor sequencing company acquired by Life Technologies in a deal potentially worth as much as $725 million, are upset about the exclusive licensing deal negotiated with the company by the Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing, which they say is symptomatic of the mistreatment of academic inventors by their employers. One of those researchers, Nader Pourmand, says his first annual royalty check was just $2,300. 

    Jun 27, 2011

  • HHMI, Max Planck Society and Wellcome Trust Plan Open Access Journal

    HHMI News | Three scientific organizations -- the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust -- plan to launch a high-impact, open access journal in 2012. The journal will be edited by "experienced and actively actively practicing" scientists who will avoid asking authors to perform endless additional experiments before a paper can be published. 

     

    Jun 27, 2011

  • 23andMe Reports Novel Parkinson's Disease Gene Associations

    PLoS Genetics | In a report in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, researchers at 23andMe studying some 3,500 Parkinson's Disease patients report two novel genome-wide associations with the disease and confirm about 20 others.

    Jun 24, 2011