• Putting Medical Records Data Through its Paces

    Bio-IT World | The Partnership to Advance Clinical electronic Research or PACeR was created to “convene the users and the collectors of the data to understand how we can safely reuse electronic medical record data to facilitate clinical research,” explains David Krusch, chief medical information officer at the University of Rochester Medical Center and chair of the PACeR leadership committee.

    Mar 11, 2011

  • Pore Science: Oxford and the 15-Minute Genome?

    The Economist | The Economist looks at Oxford Nanorpore's nanopore sequencing. “So the current state of the art spends between five and ten days just preparing the DNA,” said Gordon Sanghera, CEO at Oxford Nanopore.

    Mar 11, 2011

  • UC Davis’ Jonathan Eisen Wins 2011 Benjamin Franklin Award

    Bio-IT World | Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary geneticist and professor in the Genome Center at University of California, Davis, has been named the winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for 2011 by the Bioinformatics Organization.  

    Mar 15, 2011

  • FDA Panel Recommends Physican Input for Genetic Tests

    Medpage Today | At the FDA's Molecular and Clinical Genetics Advisory Panel last week, the panel again recommended that certain at-home genetic tests not be used without the involvement of a physician or genetic specialist.

    Mar 11, 2011

  • IBM Announces Cloud Computing Center in Singapore

    Bio-IT World | SINGAPORE—Earlier this week, IBM announced a $38m investment n a new IBM Asia Pacifica Cloud Computing Data Centre in Singapore scheduled to launch in April. The new facility will extend IBM's globally-integrated cloud delivery network with centers in Germany, Canada and the United States; and 13 global cloud labs, of which seven are based in Asia Pacific: China, India, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore. 

    Mar 10, 2011

  • deCODE Identifies Heart Rhythm Disorder SNP

    Bio-IT World | Earlier this week, scientists at deCODE genetics and academic colleagues from Iceland, The Netherlands, Denmark, the US and Illumina, report the discovery of a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) associated with high risk of sick sinus syndrome (SSS). The study was published on March 6 in the online edition of Nature Genetics.

    Mar 10, 2011

  • On the Edge of the Patent Cliff

    New York Times | Pfizer's patent on Lipitor expires in November, representing a $10 billion/year revenue stream for the drug maker.

    Mar 7, 2011

  • EMD Serono Opens New Research Hub in Boston

    Bio-IT World | Following in the footsteps of Novartis, Merck and other big pharma companies that have decided to headquarter their research operations in the Boston area, EMD Serono recently opened a new research facility in the Boston suburb of Billerica.

    Mar 3, 2011

  • NCBI Closes Sequence Read Archive, Pepidome Respository

    Bio-IT World | NCBI has announced that it will discontinue its Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and Trace Archive repositories for high-throughput sequence data and the Pepidome Repository, citing budgetary constraints. 

    Mar 1, 2011

  • Nic Volker May Be Leading Edge of New Wave of Genetic Medicine

    Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel | The case of Nic Volker, a young undiagnosed patient in Wisconsin who was treated after exome sequencing revealed a specific genetic lesion, may be the leading edge of a wave moving across medicine, as doctors at the Medical College and Children's Hospital have half-a-dozen new cases moving through an evaulation process.

    Feb 28, 2011

  • Better Business, Better Compliance Through Defensible Data Disposal

    Bio-IT World Expert Commentary | Pharmaceutical companies are drowning in data, but few organizations know what to do about it. That’s about to change. A new information governance strategy that supports “defensible data disposal” can help companies reduce the amount of data they retain. By doing so, they can utilize research data more efficiently, improve compliance processes, reduce legal and business risk, and save money.

    Feb 23, 2011

  • Microsoft Mobile Health App Challenge

    Bio-IT World | Microsoft is extending a mobile challenge to the health and life sciences marketplace, and calling partners, developers and phone app enthusiasts to come up with unique apps coded for Windows Phone  7 (WP7) that will benefit their organizations, employees or consumers.

    Feb 23, 2011

  • Genedata Announces Software Suite for Biologics R&D

    Bio-IT World | SAN FRANCISO—Genedata today released Genedata Biologics, a first-in-class, off-the-shelf software solution for comprehensive data management and analysis of biologics R&D activities. The platform is featured at CHI’s Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference 2011 in San Francisco this week (Moscone Convention Center, Feb. 23-25).

    Feb 23, 2011

  • Context and the Cloud: the Third Era of Computing

    Forbes | IBM's Watson not only soundly beat two Jeopardy champions, but also may have ushered in a new era of computing, the third in IBM's long history.

    Feb 22, 2011

  • Obama Aims for Exascale

    Computerworld | President Obama has included supercomputing in his 2012 budget proposal. If the budget is approved, the Department of Energy will get $126 million for development of an exascale computing system.

    Feb 18, 2011

  • A 2011 Wakeup Call for Pharmaceutical Companies

    Bio-IT World Comment | Challenges are not new to the pharmaceutical industry. Will pharmaceutical companies get a break in 2011? What are the trends that are impacting the pharmaceutical industry? Here are our predictions for 2011.

    Feb 17, 2011

  • NetApp Talks Cloud

    Forbes | NetApp co-founder Dave Hitz talks about some of the challenges of cloud storage, how it changes business models and consolidation in the technology industry.

    Feb 16, 2011

  • Sanofi-Aventis Closes Genzyme Buy

    Forbes | Sanofi-Aventis has agreed to buy Cambridge-based Genzyme for $74 a share, valuing the biotech at $20.1 billion.

    Feb 16, 2011

  • Sun, Sand, and Sequencing at Marco Island

    NGS Leaders | Bio-IT World Editor Kevin Davies reports from Marco Island and the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference on Ion Torrent, Baylor, SOLiD's "sweet spot", PacBio, Illumina, and more.

    Feb 13, 2011

  • Gene Mutation Responsible for Common Hypertension

    HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists have used next-generation DNA sequencing tools to identify a mutation in a gene that underlies one of the most common forms of severe hypertension.

    Feb 13, 2011