• 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

  • Nvidia CEO Software Is Eating the World but AI Is Going to Eat Software

    MIT Technology Review | Jensen Huang predicts that health care and autos are going to be transformed by artificial intelligence.

    May 12, 2017

  • Deep Genomics Shifts Focus to Genetic Medicines

    Bio-IT World | Earlier this month Deep Genomics announced a shift in company focus. Genetic testing was the Deep Genomics business plan in August of 2015; today the company is working to develop genetic medicines.

    May 12, 2017

  • Hacking Bio-IT: Bio-IT World Launches First Hackathon

    Bio-IT World | At the end of May, the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo will host its first Bio-IT Hackathon, this year focusing on FAIR data, data that are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

    May 10, 2017

  • Edico Announces $22M Round

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Edico Genome announced today it has raised $22 million in a Series B financing to expand market adoption and product development of its DRAGEN platform. New investor Dell Technologies Capital, the venture arm of Dell Technologies, led the round and all existing investors participated, including Qualcomm Ventures, Axon Ventures and life sciences industry executive Greg Lucier.

    May 9, 2017

  • PacBio's Juliet Minor Variant Software

    Bio-IT World At PacBio’s SMRT scientific symposium and developers meeting last week held at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, Lance Hepler, with PacBio, announced three apps coming in the next SMRT Analysis release: minor variants, structural variation, and multiplexed microbe WGS.

    May 8, 2017

  • NIH Grant Limits Rile Biomedical Research Community

    Nature News & Comment | Scientists are split over whether limiting grant support to individuals will help young researchers or hurt collaboration.

    May 5, 2017

  • 2017 Bio-IT World Best Of Show People's Choice Award Contenders

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World has announced the 2017 Best of Show competition with the Bio-IT World People’s Choice award. The four awards named by the judges and the People’s Choice Award will be announced at a live event on the Bio-IT World Expo floor at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, May 24.

    May 4, 2017

  • Anniversary Agenda: A Preview of #BioIT17

    Bio-IT World At the end of this month, Bio-IT World celebrates a milestone: the 15th anniversary of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. Fifteen years after we launched the event, it has grown into a community that we are proud of, a community of clever, innovative people working from all sides on the problems affecting life sciences. But we’re excited about more than just a champagne toast at this year’s celebration. Our 15th anniversary program in Boston, May 23-25, might be the best yet.

    May 3, 2017