• Heidi Rehm on Variant Validation, Gene Validation, and Data Sharing

    Bio-IT World | Making the case for industry-led standards and more open and transparent data sharing at the opening plenary session at last week’s Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, Heidi Rehm, Ph.D., Director at Partners HealthCare Laboratory for Molecular Medicine and medical director at the Broad Institute Clinical Research Sequencing Platform, discussed the growing needs for improved clarity and consistency of genetic data for clinical and research purposes.

    Apr 12, 2016

  • Buzz About Initial Findings from Mount Sinai's Resilience Project

    Bio-IT World | The first paper connected to the Resilience Project, an effort by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to find healthy individuals carrying mutations that seemingly ought to cause severe illnesses, was published yesterday in Nature Biotechnology.

    Apr 12, 2016

  • More News and Products from #BioIT16

    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—This week’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston was a packed three days of rich content, industry news, and product announcements. We highlighted some of the early event announcements on the first day. Here is some of the news from the second half of this week.

    Apr 8, 2016

  • Bio-IT World Honors New Products

    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—A panel of expert judges and the Bio-IT community chose to honor six new products yesterday evening at the Bio-IT World Best of Show competition. A record-breaking 46 new products in IT and the life sciences were considered this year from the 190 Bio-IT World exhibiting companies.

    Apr 7, 2016

  • Bio-IT World Names 2016 Best Practices Winners

    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—Bio-IT World announced the winners of the 2016 Best Practices Awards this morning at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo. Entries from AstraZeneca, DNAnexus, Amgen, Human Longevity, and XOMA were honored.

    Apr 6, 2016

  • Silicon Mechanics Names Two Research Cluster Grant Winners

    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—Silicon Mechanics announced the recipients of its fifth annual Research Cluster Grant (RCG) at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo today. The University of New Orleans and the University of California, Merced were each awarded a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster with the latest high-performance processing and GPU technologies valued at over $100,000 for use in demonstrated research purposes going forward.

    Apr 6, 2016

  • Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Kicks Off in Boston

    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo kicks off today in downtown Boston, and a host of companies have made news and announcements already. Here’s a roundup of news and notes we’ve seen so far.

    Apr 5, 2016

  • Sunquest Information Systems Acquires GeneInsight

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Sunquest Information Systems Inc. today announced the acquisition of GeneInsight Inc., an IT company that streamlines the analysis, interpretation and reporting of complex genetic tests, and was honored in 2013 at the Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards with the Editors’ Choice Award.

    Apr 4, 2016

  • Invitae Expands Genetic Testing Menu as Cheap, Inclusive Tests Are on the Rise

    Bio-IT World | Invitae—which began life in 2012 promising an “all-in-one” genetic test but has since become a piecemeal provider of gene panels—has launched a new series of pediatric tests, focusing on rare, high-impact variants.

    Apr 1, 2016

  • April Fools Day online prank round-up (2016)

    Computerworld | If it's April 1, it's the day the Internet is rife with pranks. Here are some of the best we've found.

    Apr 1, 2016

  • March News and Product Briefs

    Bio-IT World | The latest announcements and product launches from around the industry, including funding for new projects at 10X Genomics and Emulate, and the opening of a canine genotyping service.

    Mar 31, 2016

  • Why Nestlé has been acting a lot like a drug company

    STAT | The Nestlé Health Science subsidiary is pouring money into companies targeting conditions like gut infections, muscle loss, and Alzheimer's disease.

    Mar 30, 2016

  • #BioIT16: Book Signings on Computational Biology in Drug Discovery and Cybersecurity

    Bio-IT World | Among the events scheduled for the 2016 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, there will be two book signings in the exhibit hall: William Loging will speak and sign Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Drug Discovery and Development and Mansur Hasib will speak and sign Cybersecurity Leadership: Powering the Modern Organization. Mary Chitty, Library Director & Taxonomist for Cambridge Healthtech Institute, takes a brief look at the two works.

    Mar 30, 2016

  • 2016 Bio-IT World Best of Show People's Choice Award Contenders

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World is pleased to announce the 2016 Best of Show competition with the Bio-IT World People’s Choice award.

    Mar 29, 2016

  • How Veritas Genetics Plans to Make Its $999 Whole Genome Stick

    Bio-IT World | The myGenome service from Veritas Genetics, a $999 screen that includes a whole genome sequence and reports on an expansive number of health conditions, is running up against both the financial and regulatory limits of what genetic testing can offer today.

    Mar 28, 2016

  • AI Hits the Mainstream

    MIT Technology Review | More industries are looking for ways to use artificial intelligence. What will that mean for the technology's future?

    Mar 28, 2016

  • The Quest to Make Synthetic Cells Shows How Little We Know About Life

    The Atlantic | Scientists have created a bacterium with a minimal, life-sustaining genome, but they don't know what a third of its genes do.

    Mar 25, 2016

  • Paul Allen Announces Funding for Research at the Frontiers of Bioengineering and Systems Biology

    Bio-IT World | Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft and a lavish philanthropist in the life sciences, has made a $100 million commitment to a new scientific grant program, the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group.

    Mar 24, 2016

  • Google's New Stackdriver Service Can Manage Applications Across Multiple Clouds

    Computerworld | Google is aiming to help companies manage their applications running across public and private clouds with a new product and a set of partnerships announced at its cloud user conference.

    Mar 24, 2016

  • Runs in the Family

    The New Yorker | Siddartha Mukherjee, who has a family history of schizophrenia, untangles recent discoveries about the genetic and functional basis of the disease.

    Mar 23, 2016