• Sema4 Eric Schadt’s Genomics Startup Spins Out of Sinai to Raise Cash

    Xconomy | Eric Schadt has been incubating a genomic data project within the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for more than five years. Today, the company, Sema4, formally launches with 300+ employees.

    Jun 1, 2017

  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Offers Funding, Engineering Help To Human Cell Atlas

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has announced financial support for the Human Cell Atlas, which is using sequencing technology to redefine every cell in the body. Funding and engineering support from CZI will enable EMBL-EBI, the Broad Institute, and the University of California Santa Cruz Genomics Institute (UCSC) to set up an open, cloud-based Data Coordination Platform to check, share, and analyze the vast amounts of diverse information generated.

    Jun 1, 2017

  • Rommie Amaro on Curing Cancer at Exascale

    Bio-IT World | In her opening plenary keynote at the 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo last week in Boston, Computing Cures: Discovery Through the Lens of a Computational Microscope, Rommie Amaro emphasized to attendees the direct correlation between advances in life-sciences IT and scientific discovery.

    Jun 1, 2017

  • Genome editing Thats the way the CRISPR crumbles

    Nature Book Reviews | Nathaniel Comfort finds heroism but little nuance in Jennifer Doudna's account of her co-discovery.

    Jun 1, 2017

  • Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Edico, Illumina, Veeva Systems, And More: News From May 2017

    Bio-IT World Brief | News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Edico, Illumina, Veeva Systems, and more.

    May 31, 2017

  • CRISPR Gene Editing Can Cause Hundreds of Unintended Mutations

    Phys.org | As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published in Nature Methods has found that the gene-editing technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the genome.

    May 30, 2017

  • Bio-IT World Announces 2017 Best Practices Awards Winners

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World has announced the winners of the 2017 Best Practices Awards at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo. Entries from Maccabi Healthcare System, Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, Allotrope Foundation, Earlham Institute, Biomedical Imaging Research Services Section (BIRSS), and Alexion Pharmaceuticals were honored.

    May 25, 2017

  • Bio-IT World Announces 2017 Best Of Show Award Winners

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World announced the 2017 winners of the Best of Show Awards Program to a packed audience at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. The awards program recognizes the best of the innovative product solutions for the life sciences industry on display at the Bio-IT World conference in Boston.

    May 24, 2017

  • Broad Institute To Release Genome Analysis Toolkit 4 As Open Source Resource To Accelerate Research

    Bio-IT World Brief | The Broad Institute will release version 4 of the industry-leading Genome Analysis Toolkit under an open source software license. It is available currently as an alpha preview on the Broad Institute’s GATK website, with a beta release expected in mid-June.

    May 24, 2017

  • Ovation Receives $1.5M In Funding And Launches Collaboration With iGeneTrain

    Bio-IT World Brief | Ovation announced today the receipt of $1.5 million in funding from StageDotO, and existing investors, including Longfellow Ventures. The company will use the funds to continue the development of its next-generation scientific data-layer-as-a-service platforms, built to accelerate the progress of life science by improving how the story of scientific data is told. Ovation also announced a partnership with iGeneTRAiN to use Ovation Research to maximize collaboration capabilities across iGeneTRAiN’s transplant consortium.

    May 23, 2017

  • IBM And The tranSMART Foundation Bring Translational Medicine Data To Scientists

    Bio-IT World Brief | The tranSMART Foundation and IBM today announced their collaboration and the general availability of the tranSMART platform (version 16.2) on IBM Power8 servers. The translational research platform is running on IBM Power8 servers at the tranSMART Foundation’s Center of Excellence at the University of Michigan.

    May 23, 2017

  • Cray And Markley Partner To Provide Supercomputing As A Service

    Bio-IT World Brief | Cray and Markley have announced a partnership to provide supercomputing as a service solutions that combine the power of Cray supercomputers with the premier hosting capabilities of Markley.

    May 22, 2017

  • Data: The Lifeblood of Life Sciences Research

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | The increasing growth of research technologies and digital data is straining today’s IT infrastructure with changes in the lab happening so fast that the infrastructure must not only meet today’s needs, but also have flexibility for an uncertain tomorrow.

    May 19, 2017

  • Creative Minds: The Human Gut Microbiome’s Top 100 Hits

    NIH Director's Blog | Michael Fischbach received a 2016 NIH Director's Pioneer Award to conduct research aimed at gaining a better understanding of the small molecules made by the human gut microbiome. He will begin by creating a "Top 100" list of its most-abundant molecules.

    May 18, 2017

  • d-Wise Launches Cloud-Based Platform To Enhance Clinical Software

    Clinical Informatics News | d-Wise recently launched their Clinical Acceleration Platform, a "pay-by-month/pay-by-study" cloud-based platform that would help provide designed turnkey validation in a prompt, efficient manner.

    May 18, 2017

  • IBM Nudges Ahead in the Race for Quantum Supremacy

    MIT Technology Review | A pair of new chips show that scaling up quantum devices looks increasingly plausible.

    May 17, 2017

  • Lessons Learned From The Cancer Genomics Cloud

    Bio-IT World | Seven Bridges’ new Chief Communications Officer gives an update on the Seven Bridges Cancer Genomics Cloud and some hints at how lessons learned in the public arena are powering Seven Bridges’ private business.

    May 17, 2017

  • Synthego Offers Free CRISPR Design Tool

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Synthego today announced new online CRISPR tools that make accessible over 100,000 genomes for free, fast, and easy world-class target design. Consisting of a guide designer and a design validator, Synthego’s software addresses gaps in the CRISPR design process, and allows both sophisticated and novice researchers to reduce the time it takes to create optimal designs from hours to minutes.

    May 16, 2017

  • Geneticists Enlist Engineered Virus And CRISPR To Battle Citrus Disease

    Nature News & Comment | Desperate farmers hope scientists can beat pathogen that is wrecking the US orange harvest.

    May 16, 2017

  • Scientists Raise Concern By Wanting To Create Synthetic Human Genomes

    NPR.org | In New York, hundreds of scientists discussed a highly ambitious and controversial project. They want to create synthetic genetic codes for all kinds of creatures - including the human genetic code.

    May 15, 2017