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Illumina Buys PacBio For $1.2 Billion
Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina and Pacific Biosciences today announced they have signed an agreement for Illumina to acquire Pacific Biosciences at a price of $8.00 per Pacific Biosciences share in an all-cash transaction. This price represents a premium of 71% to Pacific Biosciences’ 30 trading day volume weighted average share price as of the market close on October 31st, 2018, and a total enterprise value of approximately $1.2 billion on a fully diluted basis.
Nov 1, 2018
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23andMe Test Cleared To Help Patients Determine How Well Drugs May Work For Them
STAT | The genetic test is the first of its kind authorized by the Food and Drug Administration for direct-to-consumer marketing.
Nov 1, 2018
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QIAGEN, iSpecimen, Riffyn, And More: News From October 2018
Bio-IT World | October featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including QIAGEN, iSpecimen, Riffyn, and more.
Oct 31, 2018
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How an outsider bucked prevailing Alzheimers theory clawed for validation
STAT | Even as potential Alzheimer's drugs failed, researchers with fresh approaches struggled to get funded and to get studies published in top journals.
Oct 29, 2018
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IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion
CNBC | The acquisition is by far IBM's largest deal ever, and third-biggest in the history of U.S. tech.
Oct 29, 2018
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Scripps, Nvidia Tackle AI Tools, Best Practices For Genomics And Health Sensors
HPCwire | Nvidia and the Scripps Research Translational Institute announced a collaboration to develop AI and deep learning best practices, tools and infrastructure to accelerate AI applications using genomic and digital health sensor data.
Oct 26, 2018
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New Chinese Sequencer Promises 60 Human Genomes In A Day
Bio- IT World News Brief | MGI Tech introduced the next iteration of its sequencer, the MGISEQ-T7, at the 13th International Conference on Genomics (ICG-13) in Shenzhen. The company also announced new library and sample prep and an application for tumor mutation detection.
Oct 25, 2018
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Amazon Web Services Joins NIH’s STRIDES Initiative
Bio-IT World News Brief | Amazon Web Services has joined NIH’s STRIDES Initiative to harness the latest cloud technologies for biomedical researchers.
Oct 24, 2018
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News And Notes From ASHG 2018
Bio-IT World | The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) hosted their annual meeting last week in San Diego, California. Here are some of the announcements made during the meeting.
Oct 22, 2018
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Opportunity Identification - Zeroing In On The Most Promising Targets
Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | When tackling opportunity identification, life science and biotech companies need to look at services and technology platforms that can leverage data collection to come up with a targeted list of opportunities and bring on a senior team to develop relationships with them before and after the automated data crunching.
Oct 17, 2018
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The Results Of Your Genetic Test Are Reassuring. But That Can Change.
The New York Times | Laboratories frequently "reclassify" genetic mutations. But there is no reliable system for telling patients or doctors that the results of their genetic tests are no longer valid.
Oct 16, 2018
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Golden Helix Looks Ahead After Receiving NIH Grant For Structural Variation Detection
Bio-IT World | After announcing another grant from the National Institutes of Health to dig further into detecting structural variations, Golden Helix’s CEO and president discusses the company’s history, the shift in trajectory over the past five years, and what’s next.
Oct 16, 2018
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Takeda On Foundational, Business-Driven, Enabling Data Science
Bio-IT World | At the 2018 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, we dedicated a plenary session to a panel discussion on data science. Wanting to offer the conversation to our community, we asked Krista McKee about the optimal environment to grow data science, the definition of data curation, and more.
Oct 15, 2018
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Oxford Nanopore Launches MinIT, Enabling Real Time, Portable DNA Sequencing
Bio-IT World News Brief | Oxford Nanopore has announced they are shipping their new MinIT, a rapid analysis and device control accessory for nanopore DNA sequencing, to genomics researchers.
Oct 12, 2018
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GA4GH Announces Workflow Execution Service API To Standardized Workflows Across Compute Environments
Bio-IT World | At the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health plenary meeting in Basel, Switzerland, GA4GH announced the Workflow Execution Service API developed by the Cloud Work Stream.
Oct 11, 2018
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Pacific Biosciences Launches Sequel System 6.0
Bio-IT World News Brief | Pacific Biosciences has launched version 6.0 of its Sequel System as well as new consumable reagents and a new SMRT Cell.
Oct 10, 2018
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Accenture, Merck, AWS Look To Cloud For Drug Discovery Innovation
Bio-IT World | Accenture and Merck will soon launch a cloud-based informatics research platform in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, designed to help organizations in the life sciences industry improve their productivity, efficiency, and innovation in the early stages of drug discovery.
Oct 10, 2018
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Pacific Biosciences Releases Highest-Quality, Most Contiguous Individual Human Genome Assembly To Date
Bio-IT World News Brief | Pacific Biosciences announced it has produced the most contiguous diploid human genome assembly of a single individual to date, representing the nearly complete DNA sequence from all 46 chromosomes inherited from both parents.
Oct 9, 2018
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GA4GH Holds Annual Event, Reports On Driver Projects
Bio-IT World | The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health held its annual event this week, presenting the first set of deliverables developed under GA4GH Connect, the group’s 5-year strategic plan to enable real-world genomic data sharing by 2022, and opening the call for new GA4GH Driver projects.
Oct 5, 2018
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Researchably’s New AI Solution Uses NLP To Sift Through Research
Bio-IT World | Researchably, a startup in the UC Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator program, announced their natural language processing AI solution, which has the capability to read and review scientific articles, and determine to which departments they are most relevant faster, making far fewer errors than expert readers.
Oct 4, 2018