Feb 22, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

MIT Technology Review | Among Tech Review's top breakthroughs of 2015: liquid biopsy. Fast DNA-sequencing machines are leading to simple blood tests for cancer. Availability: now

Feb 20, 2015, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Feb 20, 2015, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Feb 19, 2015, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference is being held in San Francisco this week, and several updates and new products have emerged already. For live coverage of the event, follow @BioITWorld and the hashtag #TriCon on Twitter.

Feb 18, 2015, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Life is too short to wait for GATK to finish. A new company, ClusterK, is releasing its genomics pipeline to illustrate how complex workflows like the Broad Institute’s GATK can be run efficiently—and much faster—on the cloud thanks to grid scheduling and clever use of Amazon's spot markets.  

Feb 18, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

DURHAM, NC, UNITED STATES - Feb 18, 2015 - WHAT:  Cenduit, a joint venture between Quintiles and Thermo Fisher Scientific, is showcasing its solutions and expertise as the largest interactive response technology (IRT) specialist in the world at Clinical Trial Supply Europe, February 25-26 in Cannes, France

Feb 18, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

Yahoo Finance | Researchers unveiled the map of the "epigenome" in the journal Nature on Wednesday, alongside nearly two dozen related papers. The human genome is the blueprint for building an individual person. The epigenome can be thought of as the cross-outs and underlinings of that blueprint: if someone's genome contains DNA associated with cancer but that DNA is "crossed out" by molecules in the epigenome, for instance, the DNA is unlikely to lead to cancer. As sequencing individuals' genomes to infer the risk of disease becomes more common, it will become all the more important to figure out how the epigenome is influencing that risk as well as other aspects of health.

Feb 18, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PALO ALTO, CA - Feb 18, 2015 - PREMIER Biosoft, a global leader in bioinformatics, is proud to announce that it was felicitated with the "Company of the Year" award for the year 2014 in the life science category by CIOReview magazine

Feb 18, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ROCKVILLE AND BALTIMORE, MD - Feb 18, 2015 - BioHealth Innovation, Inc. (BHI) announced today that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has signed an agreement to extend and expand its entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR) program with BHI

Feb 17, 2015, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BIOVIA, the life sciences-oriented subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes formerly known as Accelrys, today introduced a new informatics platform for companies developing biologic drugs, in an announcement at the Molecular Medicine Tri Conference in San Francisco.

Feb 17, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Feb 17, 2015 - Smart Data Summit is proud to announce Wipro Ltd. as a Gold Sponsor for the 2015 edition of the event, to be held at Sofitel The Palm Resort and Spa, Dubai, on May 25-26, 2015

Feb 17, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Feb 17, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development and drug safety consulting company, today announced that it will be launching version 8

Feb 17, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Feb 17, 2015 -  Translational Software, Inc., a leader in integrating genetic information into routine clinical care, has announced the release of a new white paper, “A Lab Leader’s Guide to Pharmacogenomic Testing (PGx)

Feb 16, 2015, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BioNano’s Irys platform doesn’t sequence DNA. Instead, it’s all about assembly: sorting out exactly where different parts of the genome fit into chromosomes. The company says Irys is the only commercially available system that can handle structural variations in large, complex genomes.

Feb 16, 2015, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Feb 16, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN MATEO, CA - Feb 16, 2015 - Maverix Biomics Inc., today announced at the 23rd International Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference (Tricon) in San Francisco CA that the company has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, to streamline the interpretation of raw next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to reveal new insights and to assist with critical decision making

Feb 12, 2015, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The 2015 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences is now open for voting by Bioinformatics.org winners. Voting will close on February 23, and the winner will be announced in April at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo.

Feb 12, 2015, 13:20 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Invitae, a genetic testing company founded by former Genomic Health CEO Randy Scott, raised $102 million today in an initial public offering.

Feb 12, 2015, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Hugh Rienhoff and his daughter Bea have talked publicly of their clinical odyssey searching for a cause for Bea's ultra-rare condition. Now, Bea is to be the subject of a documentary currently raising funding on Kickstarter.

Feb 11, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CAMDEN, NJ - Feb 11, 2015 - Coriell Life Sciences was named a winner of a 2015 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Cloud Solution Hosted on SoftLayer