• Bio-IT World Announces Best Practices Finalists

    Bio-IT World | The Editors announced the finalists today in the Bio-IT World Best Practices competition. Entries from 17 groups made it to the final round of competition.

    Mar 15, 2016

  • #BioIT16: A Preview of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo

    Bio-IT World |The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo comes early this year--April 5-7 in Boston--and yet we are ready to get into the program. Here's a look at some of the sessions we have starred.

    Mar 14, 2016

  • Genetics Database for Autism Free on WuXi NextCODE Exchange

    Bio-IT World News Brief  This morning, the Simons Foundation, a grant-giving institution that supports collaborative efforts in scientific and mathematical research, announced that the Simons Simplex Collection is now open for access by researchers worldwide, through the online WuXi NextCODE Exchange.

    Mar 10, 2016

  • These technologies will blow the lid off data storage

    Computerworld | Data storage manufacturers have repeatedly come up against walls in their quest for ever larger drives and faster performance. And each time, new technology allows them to scale those walls and keep going. They're about to do it again.

    Mar 9, 2016

  • New Chemistry, Basecaller, Prep From Oxford Nanopore

    Bio-IT World Brief | Oxford CTO Clive Brown outlined several updates to the platform in a Google Hangout yesterday including new chemistry, a new basecaller, and changes to library prep, and an update on PromethION.

    Mar 9, 2016

  • Changes at Illumina for Flatley, deSouza, Kahn

    Bio-IT World Brief | Changes at Illumina this week. Today Jay Flatley, current Chairman and CEO, announced he will assume the role of Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors on July 5, 2016. Francis deSouza, currently President, will be appointed President and Chief Executive Officer on the same date and will continue to serve on the Illumina Board of Directors. Scott Khan, Illumina’s Vice President Commercial, Enterprise Informatics, has said he plans to retire from Illumina in early March as well.

    Mar 7, 2016

  • PrecisionFDA Consistency Challenge Will Benchmark the Basic Software Tools of Genetic Research

    Bio-IT World | The first challenge hosted in the FDA's cloud-based precisionFDA platform will score different computational pipelines' ability to accurately call variants from raw DNA sequence data, in a public competition meant to shed light on some of the most essential tools in genomics.

    Mar 4, 2016

  • Alaska’s Biotech Sugar Daddy Is Showering Money on Startups

    Bloomberg.com | Alaska's economic eminence stems from the discovery of oil on the North Slope in the 1960s. But its more recent crown as a biotech sugar daddy started in March 2013 with a chance meeting on a flight from Boston to Seattle.

    Mar 3, 2016

  • Precision for Medicine Transforms Big Data Into Actionable Information

    Bio-IT World | Precision for Medicine will formally launch its immuno-analytics platform solution this month, the latest addition to its PATH suite of tools for contending with big 'omics data even when working with small sample sizes.

    Mar 2, 2016

  • February News and Product Briefs

    Bio-IT World | The latest products and announcements from around the industry, including the introduction of Arvados to Microsoft Azure, and an online solution for metagenomics through One Codex.

    Mar 1, 2016

  • New CRISPR-Like Defense System Discovered in Giant Viruses

    The Atlantic | The bizarre Mimivirus has become even more perplexing, as scientists uncover a genetic element called MIMIVRE, highly analogous to CRISPR, that it uses to fight off smaller viruses.

    Feb 29, 2016

  • NanoString Reveals Novel Sequencing Method for Cancer Assays

    Bio-IT World | NanoString Technologies, a Seattle company with a small but comfortable niche in automated genetic analysis, is preparing to make the leap into DNA and RNA sequencing, with a highly novel process it calls Hyb and Seq.

    Feb 29, 2016

  • Obama Is Using the Bully Pulpit to Set Patient Data Free

    Forbes | At a White House meeting on the President's Precision Medicine Initiative, open data, shared with patients and between centers, is the centerpiece of a national plan.

    Feb 25, 2016

  • Verily, Vanderbilt Named to Launch U.S. Precision Medicine Pilot

    Reuters | The National Institutes of Health on Thursday named Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, as advisor to Nashville's Vanderbilt University in a pilot program to launch the Precision Medicine Initiative outlined by President Barack Obama last year.

    Feb 25, 2016

  • Illumina Sues Oxford Nanopore Technologies Over Composition of Nanopores

    Bio-IT World | Oxford Nanopore Technologies, creator of the world's first and only nanopore sequencer, has found itself the target of a lawsuit by genomics giant Illumina, which does not make a nanopore sequencer but does license two patents related to a very specific iteration of the technology.

    Feb 24, 2016

  • Toward Ubiquitous Computational Life Sciences

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Wolfgang Gentzsch of UberCloud argues that the expansion of software containers for life sciences applications is moving biology and medicine closer to a state of 'ubiquitous computing,' where compute infrastructure becomes all but invisible to most end users.

    Feb 23, 2016

  • Diabetes Diagnoses Lead to DIY Glucose Monitoring and Insulin Production

    New York Times | Parents of children with diabetes have led an egalitarian push for improved technology to monitor the condition, and to even develop cheaper insulin.

    Feb 23, 2016

  • DDN Introduces Solution for Enterprise-Wide Mobile Data Access

    Bio-IT World News Brief | DDN, creator of the WOS object storage platform for simplified data storage and access at multi-petabyte scale, has launched a new product for enterprise data governance as employees access files at home and through mobile devices.

    Feb 22, 2016

  • Building a Social Reader Reality

    Bio-IT World Brief | More than eight months after its Kickstarter launch, N of Everyone is pushing ahead with its social reader product. Today Reader lists more than 3.5 million papers available for reading, comment, search, and discussion and has 700 registered users.

    Feb 17, 2016

  • IndiGenomics Aims to Expand the Horizons of DNA Sequencing

    BBC News | TED Fellow Keolu Fox has been describing his hopes to include indigenous groups in future genetic testing.

    Feb 17, 2016