• Why Scientists Are Sequencing Newborns Genomes

    Forbes | Diagnosing hereditary disorders by sequencing the genomes of newborn babies.

    Dec 2, 2016

  • AWS Announces FPGA Instances For Its EC2 Cloud Computing Service

    TechCrunch | Amazon's AWS cloud computing service today announced that it is launching a new instance type with field-programmable gate arrays. The promise of these arrays is that they are essentially chips that you can reprogram on the fly and tune them for your specific applications, making them faster than traditional CPU/GPU combinations.

    Nov 30, 2016

  • Illumina, Dell EMC, QIAGEN, and More: News from November 2016

    Bio-IT World News Briefs| News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community including news from Illumina, Dell EMC, QIAGEN, and more.

    Nov 23, 2016

  • An In Depth Look at the Father of Systems Biology

    Bio-IT World Review | Luke Timmerman has produced a page-turner biography of biologist and biotech entrepreneur Leroy “Lee” Hood. Timmerman’s narrative provides valuable insights into the man, biology, and biotechnology.

    Nov 23, 2016

  • U.S. Sets Plan To Build Two Exascale Supercomputers

    Computerworld | The U.S expects to be ready to seek vendor proposals to build two exascale supercomputers by 2019.

    Nov 23, 2016

  • AWS Is Cutting And Simplifying Its Storage Prices

    Computerworld | Amazon Web Services made a series of price cuts on Tuesday and simplified what customers pay for its storage products.

    Nov 23, 2016

  • Intel and Broad Commit to Five-Year Genomic Data Engineering Partnership

    Bio-IT World CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—On Thursday, Intel and the Broad Institute came together to announce a joint endeavor that aims to enable research organizations and their IT departments to keep up with exponentially increasing amounts of genomics data.

    Nov 22, 2016

  • Oracle Just Bought Dyn the Company That Brought Down the Internet

    WIRED | An attack on internet infrastructure company Dyn last month cut off access to some of the world's biggest sites last month. Now Oracle is buying the company.

    Nov 21, 2016

  • DDN Survey Finds Private Cloud Growth, Mixed Flash Use Among HPC Users

    Bio-IT World | Earlier this month, DataDirect Networks (DDN) announced the results of its annual High Performance Computing (HPC) Trends survey. The company queried 143 high performance compute end users responsible for high performance computing, networking and storage systems from financial services, government, higher education, life sciences, manufacturing, national labs, and oil and gas organizations.

    Nov 21, 2016

  • PM Signals £2bn A Year Science Funding Increase

    BBC News | Prime Minister Theresa May announces an additional £2bn a year by 2020 for UK research and innovation. The promised money will be for emerging fields of research in which the UK excels, such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and biotech.

    Nov 21, 2016

  • Microsoft Spends Big to Build a Computer Out of Science Fiction

    The New York Times | The computer giant says it's ready to start planning a prototype quantum computer, a superpowerful device that relies on subatomic particles instead of transistors.

    Nov 21, 2016

  • Obama Advisers Say CRISPR Is A Bioterror Threat

    MIT Technology Review | In a letter to the president, advisers say technologies like CRISPR represent a threat that hasn't been adequately considered.

    Nov 18, 2016

  • AWS roundup Hybrid deployments with Amazons cloud get a boost Computerworld

    Computerworld | October was a big month for Amazon Web Services, which announced a key partnership with VMware, a new service for migrating VMs to the cloud, and more.

    Nov 18, 2016

  • Sequencing Sprint: Novogene Claims Highest Sequencing Capacity in China

    Diagnostics World News | As precision medicine initiatives pop up across the globe, Beijing-based genome sequencing firm Novogene looks to capitalize on efforts to tailor treatments.

    Nov 17, 2016

  • 23andMe President Andy Page Steps Down

    Business Insider | Andy Page is stepping down as president at 23andme and will remain on the company's board, according to a letter sent to employees. The news comes only a few weeks after it was reported that the company won't be pursuing next-generation sequencing.

    Nov 17, 2016

  • Stem Cell Transplant Startup With Harvard Tech Magenta Therapeutics Gets $48.5M

    Forbes | Adult stem cell transplants can be very effective against certain leukemias and lymphomas. You get whacked with high-dose chemo or radiation to hopefully kill the cancer cells. Then you get blood-forming adult stem cells, usually donated from a family member.

    Nov 16, 2016

  • A Conversation with Rommie Amaro

    ACS Central Science | Rommie Amaro--professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo plenary speaker--talks about how molecular dynamics simulations can lead to new drugs.

    Nov 15, 2016

  • CRISPR Gene-Editing Tested In A Person For The First Time

    Nature News & Comment | A Chinese group has become the first to inject a person with cells that contain genes edited using the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 technique. The move by Chinese scientists could spark a biomedical duel between China and the United States.

    Nov 15, 2016

  • Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Adopts DNAnexus on Azure

    Bio-IT World The Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine (SCGPM) has adopted the DNAnexus Platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud for its genomic analysis, data management, and collaborative research solutions.  The SCGPM, which supports researchers across nearly 80 laboratories, brought the two technologies together after working with both DNAnexus and Microsoft independently.

    Nov 15, 2016

  • American Heart Association, AWS Launch Heart Disease Cloud Marketplace

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The American Heart Association (AHA) announced a milestone in its strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS): the launch of a global, secure cloud-based data marketplace for cardiovascular diseases. The AHA Precision Medicine Platform will include an array of curated datasets, that are centrally stored, easily searched and accessible, and managed on the AWS cloud

    Nov 14, 2016