• The Jackson Laboratory, Illumina, Sinequa, And More: News From June 2017

    Bio-IT World Brief | News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including The Jackson Laboratory, Illumina, Sinequa, and more.

    Jun 29, 2017

  • Data Models To GO-FAIR

    Nature Genetics | FAIR Data is data that should be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable by both humans and machines. Nature Genetics is calling for submissions containing linked open data models that embody and extend the FAIR principles.

    Jun 28, 2017

  • New Gene-Editing Technique Could Drive Out Mosquito-Borne Disease

    Berkeley News | Scientists at UC Berkeley and UC Riverside have demonstrated a way to edit the genome of disease-carrying mosquitoes that brings us closer to suppressing them on a continental scale.

    Jun 28, 2017

  • Sequencing Healthy Patients Reveals That Many Carry Rare Genetic Disease Risks

    Bio-IT World Brief | In a new paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, along with collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine, report the results of the 4 year, NIH-funded MedSeq Project, the first-ever randomized trial conducted to examine the impact of whole genome sequencing in healthy primary care patients.

    Jun 27, 2017

  • Data Diversity In Precision Medicine

    Bio-IT World | Why diverse datasets are needed to enhance genomic interpretation and speed the progress of precision medicine.

    Jun 26, 2017

  • Rady Children's Ambitious Genomics Expansion To Start In Orange County

    The San Diego Union-Tribune | Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine announced last week that it has made a pact with Children's Hospital of Orange County, offering quick-turnaround service for infants in that facility's intensive care units who need the speed.

    Jun 26, 2017

  • How To Tackle Ransomware Without Paying A Dime To Cybercriminals

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Understanding what data is at risk during a ransomware attack is the first and most critical step to take, in order to prevent a large-scale disaster.

    Jun 23, 2017

  • Bioz Launches Partner Program For Life Science Tool Vendors

    Bio-IT World Brief | Bioz announced the formal launch of the Bioz Partner Program. The new program, aimed towards life science product vendors, provides a comprehensive set of vendor specific features and services and ultimately elevates vendor brand presence and product prominence at a time when researchers are actively making their purchasing decisions.

    Jun 21, 2017

  • How Boston Became The Best Place In The World To Launch A Biotech Company

    Bostonomix | As the sector has matured, some say government help is no longer needed. But others insist state support is still vital to fund basic science and create a collaborative ecosystem.

    Jun 20, 2017

  • China's Two Supercomputers Still World's Fastest

    Bio-IT World Brief | The latest edition of the semiannual T0P500 list of supercomputers places China’s Sunway TaihuLight in the top position for the second consecutive year.

    Jun 19, 2017

  • Six Companies Get DOE PathForward Grants For Exascale Computing

    Bio-IT World  The Department of Energy today announced a $258 million investment with the intention of delivering at least one exascale-capable computing system by 2021. AMD, Cray, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Intel, and NVIDIA received DOE grants to support R&D in three areas: hardware technology, software technology, and application development.

    Jun 15, 2017

  • Pacific Biosciences Of California Announces Pricing Of Public Offering Of Common Stock

    Bio-IT World Brief | Pacific Biosciences of California today announced that it has priced its previously announced underwritten public offering of 15,419,354 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $3.10 per share. The offering is expected to close on or about June 20, 2017 subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

    Jun 15, 2017

  • Up And Coming Scientist Gets Funding For CAR-T Startup CARMA Therapeutics

    BioSpace | Philadelphia-based CARMA Therapeutics announced it has closed an initial financing for an undisclosed amount. The round was co-led by AbbVie Ventures and HealthCap. Participants included Grazia Equity and IP Group.

    Jun 14, 2017

  • iSpecimen Launches Biospecimen Marketplace

    Bio-IT World | iSpecimen launched its marketplace today, an online shopping platform to connect life science researchers to healthcare organizations with human biospecimens.

    Jun 13, 2017

  • MyHeritage Launches New Comprehensive DNA Ethnicity Analysis

    Bio-IT World Brief | MyHeritage announced the launch of its new and improved Ethnicity Estimate. The new analysis, developed by the company’s science team, provides MyHeritage DNA customers with a percentage-based estimate of their ethnic origins covering 42 ethnic regions, many available only on MyHeritage, representing the most comprehensive report of its type available on the market.

    Jun 12, 2017

  • Gene Editing Companies Hit Back At Paper That Criticized CRISPR

    MIT Technology Review | Report that suggested CRISPR is too dangerous to use as a drug was wrong, say biotech companies.

    Jun 12, 2017

  • FAIR Hacking: Bio-IT World Hosts Its First Hackathon

    Bio-IT World | The 16th annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo featured its first Bio-IT Hackathon, a competition focusing on FAIR data, data that are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

    Jun 9, 2017

  • Text-Mining Tool Seeks Out Hidden Data

    Nature News & Comment | A tool called Wide-Open can search out instances of locked online research data sets that are supposed to be public, and it has already flagged hundreds of such instances in genetics research.

    Jun 8, 2017

  • Masters of Complexity: Edison Liu On The Future Of The Mouse Model

    Bio-IT World | Edison Liu, president and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory, is harnessing the JAX spirit to push the organization—and hopefully the field—toward a more mature understanding of complexity.

    Jun 8, 2017

  • A Retrospective Of The 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo

    Bio-IT World | The 16th annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo took place recently in Boston. The exhibit floor and conference sessions featured discussions and product releases from The Jackson Laboratory, the Broad Institute, and more.

    Jun 7, 2017