Mar 3, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN MATEO, CA - Mar 3, 2015 - Maverix Biomics, Inc., a leading genomic analysis software company, today announced that it will provide $50,000 in analytic support to the Rare Genomics Institute (RGI) competition, BeHEARD (Helping Empower and Accelerate Research Discoveries), an annual rare disease science challenge

Mar 3, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Mar 3, 2015 - WHAT:  Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), will provide valuable insight and important considerations for adopting the recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Guidance, "Providing Regulatory Submissions in Electronic Format - Standardized Study Data," through a free webinar

Mar 3, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ROCKVILLE, MD - Mar 3, 2015 - TEMIS, the leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, today announced that it was named by KMWorld Magazine to its prestigious list of “100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management”

Mar 2, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

MILPITAS, CA, UNITED STATES - Mar 2, 2015 - Amplidata, the leader in object-based software defined storage, today announced that UConn Health has purchased and installed a storage system based on Amplidata's Himalaya object-based, software-defined storage software

Feb 27, 2015, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Feb 26, 2015, 10:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | GCAT, the Genome Comparison & Analytic Testing platform for benchmarking the performance of basic informatics tools, now has a formal home in the scientific literature with the publication of a paper in Nature Communications.

Feb 26, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

HARDERWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS - Feb 26, 2015 - Today, biomedical big data solutions company GENALICE announced that they have added a cloud solution via Amazon Web Services (AWS) to its on-premise solution, the GENALICE VAULT

Feb 26, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

THOUSAND OAKS - Feb 26, 2015 - Ceres, Inc. today announced that it has achieved Gold Partner status in Oracle PartnerNetwork. In attaining Gold Level membership, Ceres has been recognized by Oracle for its commitment to establish Oracle-related knowledge in delivering Ceres’ Persephone genome visualization software and for uniquely addressing the challenges of joint customers

Feb 26, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

WILMINGTON, MA - Feb 26, 2015 -
Kapa Biosystems, Inc. today announced the launch of the latest library preparation products for Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) DNA and RNA analysis

Feb 26, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Feb 26, 2015 - Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, is part of a groundbreaking National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study on peanut allergy

Feb 25, 2015, 13:55 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | On the first day of the annual Advances in Genome Biology & Technology conference in Marco Island, Florida, 10X Genomics has unveiled its GemCode Platform for recovering long-range information from genomes sequenced on Illumina short-read instruments.

Feb 25, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

MARCO ISLAND, FL - Feb 25, 2015 - MARCO ISLAND, FLORIDA - Maverix Biomics Inc. today announced the availability of its Maverix Complete solution at the 16th annual Advances in Genome Biology & Technology (AGBT) meeting in Marco Island, FL

Feb 24, 2015, 12:50 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | This morning, diagnostics and laboratory supply company QIAGEN announced the creation of the Allele Frequency Community, a network of academic centers and commercial groups who will share data on the genetic variants they’ve uncovered during human sequencing studies.

Feb 24, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

MUNICH, GERMANY - Feb 24, 2015 - Key professionals in leading biopharma organizations attended The International Symposium for Tissue Phenomics™ in October 2014 to discuss the latest developments in cancer research and big data

Feb 24, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILLE, NC, UNITED STATES - Feb 24, 2015 - WHAT:  Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), will highlight its continued success in drug development strategies and services to the California life science industry during the CALBIO 2015 conference, being held March 2-3 in San Francisco

Feb 23, 2015, 17:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Foundation Medicine and H3 Biomedicine announced a multi-year collaboration today for the discovery and development of precision medicines in oncology. The collaboration marries Foundation Medicine’s comprehensive genomic knowledgebase of more than 35,000 genomic profiles, FoundationCORE, with H3 Biomedicine’s drug discovery engine and computational biology platform.

Feb 23, 2015, 09:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | This morning, DNA sequencing company Illumina released a new product, NeoPrep, to work alongside its line of next-generation sequencers.

Feb 23, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ESPOO, FINLAND - Feb 23, 2015 - A recently published methodology paper (Alonso et al, 2015, “GWAS and NGS in bone research”) summarizes the key standard workflows in GWA studies, highlighting essential differences to analyses based on NGS-derived data

Feb 23, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

COLUMBUS, OH - Feb 23, 2015 - GenomeNext, LLC, a leader in genomic data management and integrated analysis, announced today an agreement with Nationwide Children’s Hospital under which Nationwide  Children’s will integrate GenomeNext’s genomic sequencing analysis platform for both clinical laboratory services and clinical research initiatives

Feb 23, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

MIT Technology Review | 2015's Breakthrough Technologies: A global network of millions of genomes could be medicine's next great advance. Availability: 1-2 years