Nov 4, 2015, 11:32 AM by Michael Croft

TechCrunch | One of several biotechs recently backed by tech accelerator Y Combinator, Verge Genomics has closed a $4 million seed round to follow leads from its predictive algorithms for drug repurposing in neurological disease.

Nov 3, 2015, 15:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Graveley lab at the University of Connecticut has demonstrated that the handheld MinION nanopore sequencer can distinguish between RNA isoforms in Dscam1, the most alternatively spliced gene known to science.

Nov 3, 2015, 12:14 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | IBM bought Gravitant, a maker of brokerage software designed ease the purchase and management of software and services across mixed cloud platforms.

Nov 3, 2015, 10:22 AM by Michael Croft

SAN MATEO - Nov 3, 2015 - Maverix Biomics, Inc., a leading genomic analysis software company, today announced a grant program designed to foster the rapid adoption and acceleration of gene expression research using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)

Nov 3, 2015, 10:04 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, MA - Nov 3, 2015 -  

• The San Antonio 1000 Cancer Genome Project is collecting tumor and normal patient samples in the ten most common cancers from across a single metropolitan area
• WuXi NextCODE's CLIA laboratory will have sequenced the majority by year endx

Nov 3, 2015, 09:45 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Nov 3, 2015 - The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) announces that the results of its 6th blind test of crystal structure prediction methods demonstrate significant advancement in crystal structure prediction methods in comparison with previous testsx

Nov 2, 2015, 15:55 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World  | Tute Genomics announced this morning that the company has acquired Knome, one of the earliest players in the consumer genomics space. The acquisition will further develop Tute’s genomics analysis pipeline in pursuit of an integrated genomics analysis product.

Nov 2, 2015, 13:55 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Elizabeth Worthey's comment that families affected by rare disease should push for whole genome sequencing has bioinformatics Twitter abuzz today, with a passionate and detailed debate about the best use of healthcare resources in the pursuit of a genetic diagnosis.

Nov 2, 2015, 11:32 AM by Michael Croft

PROVO, UT - Nov 2, 2015 -   Tute Genomics, the leader in clinical sequencing informatics, today announced the acquisition of key assets of Knome, a renowned human-genome interpretation company whose systems and services helped spearhead several of the greatest commercial advancements in modern human genetics

Nov 2, 2015, 10:10 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | After eight years, more than $20 million raised, and an assortment of different business plans, Massachusetts genomics firm Knome has been acquired by tiny Tute Genomics of Utah.

Nov 2, 2015, 03:55 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ, USA - Nov 2, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has outfitted its pharmacometrics teams with Certara’s Phoenix® software

Oct 30, 2015, 13:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including a CDC test of the Edico DRAGEN processor and new CRISPR partnerships.

Oct 30, 2015, 09:20 AM by Michael Croft

The Last Word On Nothing | Was Moore's Law originally developed as a marketing ploy for Intel?

Oct 30, 2015, 04:04 AM by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, NY - Oct 30, 2015 - Creative Bioarray, an innovative biotechnology company who produces the world's most comprehensive list of research-use cells, including tumor cells, primary cells, stem cells and transformed cells, etc, recently announced its new cryopreserved mesenteric cells for researchers, aiming to provide customers more tools for scientific study

Oct 29, 2015, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | At Direct Genomics in Shenzhen, He Jiankui is bringing back the sequencing technology of the defunct Helicos Biosciences to build a new DNA sequencer for the clinic, promising targeted diagnostic tests with minimal sample preparation and low input requirements.

Oct 28, 2015, 16:25 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The BGISEQ-500, using a dramatically reengineered version of Complete Genomics' "DNA nanoball" sequencing, is designed to compete with Illumina's NextSeq instruments on both price and throughput — at least in the Chinese markets where it is being made available next year.

Oct 28, 2015, 13:05 PM by Michael Croft

HPCwire | Accelerating genomics analysis remains one of the toughest challenges in life science research. All manner of optimizations are in use - disk streaming, op

Oct 26, 2015, 17:30 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Today at the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, SwiftStack released version 3.0 of its software with new features that extend the benefits of object storage to enterprise applications.

Oct 26, 2015, 16:10 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Bio-IT World is accepting entries to the 2016 Bio-IT World Best Practices competition. For the past thirteen years, the Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards have highlighted outstanding examples of innovations and partnerships serving as powerful forces for change in the life sciences.

Oct 26, 2015, 10:37 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | In the latest major partnership around gene editing therapies based on CRISPR-Cas9 technology, Vertex is investing $105 million upfront in CRISPR Therapeutics, to support programs in cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease, among other conditions.