• Exploring The Species Near Us

    Bio-IT World | Rob Dunn, Professor of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University has written an engaging and absorbing account of his adventures in ecology, starting with field work in the remote rain forests of Costa Rica. Eventually he learned he could discover closer to home—and help students identify—previously unknown bacteria and insects in houses, including those living in showerheads and extremophiles living in freezers and ovens.

    May 23, 2019

  • Adimab Team Accuses Prominent MIT Investigator Of Ripping Off Antibodies, Presenting Them As His Own

    Endpoints News | In an opinion paper published yesterday, John Carroll at Endpoints News speaks with Adimab chief Tillman Gerngross and MIT investigator Ram Sasisekharan about Gerngross's recent allegations against Sasisekharan, claiming he has been ripping off the work of others in the antibody field and passing it off as his own design done in silico.

    May 22, 2019

  • New Math Model Could Impact The Study Of Rapidly Evolving Diseases

    Bio-IT World | Researchers at Florida State University have developed a computational model with the potential to change the way researchers approach population genetics and the spread of diseases that evolve quickly in response to different environments.

    May 20, 2019

  • HPE Agrees to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray for $1.4 Billion

    Bloomberg.com | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has agreed to buy U.S. supercomputer maker Cray Inc. in a deal valued at about $1.4 billion as the firm works to become more competitive in high-end computing.

    May 17, 2019

  • A Bird's Eye View Of Data Consultancies

    Bio-IT World | During a panel discussion at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, three data science consultants came together to discuss the intricacies of the industry they so often work with.

    May 16, 2019

  • The Return On Investment Of Healthcare Compliance

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Healthcare companies, especially in growth phase, must be able to demonstrate the ability to comply with the laws that control their business and to identify fissures in operations quickly. Entrepreneurs and investors should therefore view compliance as a competitive advantage that puts the company in a favorable position to avoid—and swiftly and effectively to tackle—potential regulatory challenges.

    May 15, 2019

  • Medidata Launches Acorn AI For End-to-End Data Insights

    Bio-IT World | Medidata Solutions has launched Acorn AI, a Medidata company dedicated to making "data liquid across the end-to-end lifecycle of a pharmaceutical and life sciences company—from research all the way to development and into post-market."

    May 13, 2019

  • Bio-IT FAIR Data Hackathon 'Pushes The Needle' In Science

    Bio-IT World | The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo recently hosted the third annual Bio-IT FAIR Data Hackathon, giving experts in life sciences and IT the opportunity to FAIR-ify a range of existing data sets.

    May 13, 2019

  • GA4GH Launches ELIXIR Partnership, Diverse Driver Projects

    Bio-IT World  In February, the 20th European nation signed the European Declaration, an effort to sequence and provide transnational access to at least one million human genomes by 2022—putting to rest any lingering doubts about the breadth of our data sharing challenges and the importance of international standards. The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health is at the forefront of the work.  

    May 9, 2019

  • AI In Real-World Drug Discovery: The Experts Weigh In

    Bio-IT World | An "AI in Practice" keynote panel session at the recent Bio-IT World Congress & Expo in Boston discusses the efficiencies machine learning is creating in drug development, as well as the overall AI strategy companies are still formulating.

    May 8, 2019

  • Open Science Needs A Do-Over

    Bio-IT World | In his keynote presentation during opening ceremonies of the 18th Annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, John Wilbanks, chief commons officer of Merck spinoff Sage Bionetworks, explained how the business of research has traditionally focused on producing academic papers, limiting the growth of scientific knowledge to "massive incrementalism" around a succession of magic-bullet solutions—microassays, human genome project, robotics and artificial intelligence and, most recently, open science.

    May 6, 2019

  • Imagining A World On FHIR

    Bio-IT World | Achieving the aims of value-based healthcare presumes the free flow of all kinds of data, something the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) draft standard is pushing towards.

    May 2, 2019

  • Thermo Fisher Scientific, LifeArc, Pure Storage, & More: News From April 2019

    Bio-IT World | April featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Thermo Fisher Scientific, LifeArc, Pure Storage, and more.

    May 1, 2019

  • A Programmer Solved A 20-Year-Old, Forgotten Crypto Puzzle

    WIRED | A self-taught coder dedicated a CPU core to performing continuous computations for three years to crack the puzzle, beating a competing team by mere days.

    Apr 30, 2019

  • Michael J. Fox Foundation, 23andMe Launch Fox DEN

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) and 23andMe today launched the Fox Insight Data Exploration Network (Fox DEN), the data access and analytics platform for Fox Insight, an online clinical study sponsored by MJFF.

    Apr 29, 2019

  • Trends From The Trenches: 6 Themes (And A Few Observations)

    Bio-IT World | At his 2019 Trends from the Trenches address at the recent Bio-IT World Congress & Expo in Boston, BioTeam co-founder and senior director of infrastructure Chris Dagdigian shared his pearls of wisdom on the current state of scientific computing.

    Apr 29, 2019

  • PacBio Launches Sequel II System

    Bio-IT World | Pacific Biosciences has launched the Sequel II System. The system includes the new SMRT Cell 8M, as well as chemistry, instrument control software and the SMRT Link software package. Together, the latest product release further reduces project costs and timelines with approximately eight times the data output compared to the previous Sequel System, according to the company.

    Apr 26, 2019

  • Benjamin Franklin Award Winner Announced At #BioIT19

    Bio-IT World | Eugene Koonin, senior investigator at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), was honored as the recipient of the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences during the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston.

    Apr 26, 2019

  • Pfizer's Model For The Intelligent Data Framework

    Bio-IT World | During his plenary session at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, Pfizer's Vijay Bulusu laid out the company's plan to tackle the life sciences' data problem.

    Apr 25, 2019

  • How Biopharmaceutical Companies Can Fish Relevant Information From A Sea Of Data

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Information instrumental to developing the next blockbuster drug might be hidden anywhere, buried in a multitude of silos throughout the organization. Companies that leverage automation to sift through all their content and data, in all its complexity and volume, to find relevant information have an edge in researching and developing new drugs and conducting clinical trials.

    Apr 25, 2019