Bio-IT World | A Harvard professor and Bio-IT World 2018 Best Practices Award winner is banking on old-fashioned collaboration and compassion, along with 21^st century technology, to help principal investigators collect data for clinical research and to facilitate the development of new therapies and cures.

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Despite the hype and fanfare that has accompanied massive supercomputers and AI platforms in recent years, there is still no tool capable of delivering answers to questions such as, “How do I cure a particular patient’s type of cancer?”

Bio-IT World | Last month in Boston, over 3,500 members of the biotech and life science industries came together to share thoughts, insights, and technologies during the 2018 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. The conference featured 16 tracks including Bioinformatics, FAIR Data for Genomic Applications, Data Transfer, Clinical Genomics, Next-Gen Sequencing Informatics, and more.

Bio-IT World | When over 3,500 members of the biotech and life science industries spend three days together, there’s more good stuff than a writer can possibly fit into post-event coverage. Our Reporters’ Notebook comprises some of the bits and pieces that we collected over the three days in Boston.

Bio-IT World | For attendees at this year's Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, perhaps the biggest focal point was the near-permanence of data—particularly juxtaposed against the limited contemporaneous uses for any given dataset in healthcare and life-science IT.

Bio-IT World Brief | The genomes of more than 3,000 bacteria, including some of the world’s most dangerous, have been sequenced by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in collaboration with Pacific Biosciences.

Bio-IT World | Last year at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, three teams competed in a Hackathon to see if they could make their datasets more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). This year, the organizers of the FAIR Hackathon wanted to see if they could take those principles to the next level.

Bio-IT World | To celebrate the recent publication of his book She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, New York Times science columnist Carl Zimmer hosted an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session yesterday on Reddit, covering a wide range of topics from consumer genetic testing and how genomic information should be integrated into healthcare, to heredity and where Zimmer stands on genetic cloning.

Bio-IT World | When 3,500 members of the biotech and life sciences industries converged in Boston for the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, the idea of hiring the right people in Big Data popped up again and again. A panel of CEOs and executives converged to discuss this very topic.