Aug 18, 2014, 13:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A team from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has released an open source algorithm, called Scalpel, for finding insertions and deletions in next generation sequencing data sets, and published a paper in Nature Methods using this tool to identify mutations in children affected by autism.

Aug 18, 2014, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Jason Bloomberg speaks to pharma executives and industry observers who believe top drug companies could soon focus more of their efforts on creating electronic health platforms, collecting user data and to more precisely define disease risks and personalize prevention and treatment.

Aug 18, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

LUND, SWEDEN - Aug 18, 2014 - Phase Holographic Imaging today announces a collaboration agreement with Northeastern University of Boston

Aug 18, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ESPOO, FINLAND - Aug 18, 2014 - BC Platforms has been qualified to receive Tekes funding for its R&D program for its large-scale clinical and genomic R&D solutions

Aug 15, 2014, 12:45 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A paper posted this week to the preprint server bioRxiv describes MHAP, a new tool that can reportedly assemble whole genomes de novo from long-read sequencing data hundreds of times faster than previous workflows.

Aug 15, 2014, 09:50 AM by Michael Croft

Regulatory Focus | The FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) is piloting a program that would let companies track the progress of medical devices and diagnostic tests submitted for premarket approval through the agency's review process.

Aug 13, 2014, 12:15 PM by Michael Croft

Aug 12, 2014, 08:25 AM by Michael Croft

New York Times | Scientists at Tufts University have produced a three-dimensional model of the brain in which rat neurons can be grown for months at a time in the lab.

Aug 12, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

STAFFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM - Aug 12, 2014 - Qualoupe Lite, Bibby Scientific’s low cost, intuitive laboratory information management system (LIMS), is now available across an even wider selection of the company’s laboratory equipment

Aug 11, 2014, 09:50 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The Pistoia Alliance, an industry group that addresses non-competitive problems shared by stakeholders in drug development, today announced the launch of an expert community to streamline how pharma companies and their partners track the laws governing the use and distribution of chemical substances worldwide.

Aug 11, 2014, 08:50 AM by Michael Croft

Pharmalot | A large investor group has been circulating a document asking pharmaceutical companies to pledge certain measures to foster the takeup of biosimilars in the U.S., including the acknowledgement of safety data from Europe.

Aug 11, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ST. LOUIS, MO - Aug 11, 2014 - Certara®, the leading global technology-enabled drug development and drug safety consultancy, announced today that its Muse molecular design workflow for the identification and optimization of lead drug candidates now has virtual synthetic chemistry capabilities

Aug 11, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BISHOP'S STORTFORD, UK - Aug 11, 2014 - ~~Dotmatics is pleased to announce a new Academic Site License program that will provide ample access to the Dotmatics Platform for Universities and Schools around the world at a specially reduced subscription price

Aug 8, 2014, 14:25 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The Garvan Institute, one of the earliest users of the "$1000 genome" HiSeq X Ten platform, has provided two whole genome datasets for public analysis, through a partnership with DNAnexus and AllSeq.

Aug 8, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | With more than one billion samples stored in biobanks around the world, research advancements, genomics and biomarker development, and reduced research budgets are all driving the need for unified sample intelligence.

Aug 7, 2014, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Genome Center for Infectious Diseases (GCID) at the University of Maryland in Baltimore is dedicated to bringing new genomics technologies to bear on the bacteria, fungi, and parasites that cause disease in humans and livestock. One of the first targets: artemesinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes the most deadly type of malaria

Aug 7, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

THE WOODLANDS, TX, UNITED STATES - Aug 7, 2014 - MolecularHealth announces the addition of Fadi Braiteh, M

Aug 5, 2014, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News | Circulating tumor DNA--released into the blood when a tumor cell dies--has the potential to tell us far more about the various mutations in cancers than just tissue biopsies.

Aug 5, 2014, 08:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A new four-year program of grants to organizations developing DNA sequencing technologies, totaling $14.5 million, will bring to a close the Advanced DNA Sequencing Technology initiative that has been funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute for over a decade.

Aug 4, 2014, 14:40 PM by Michael Croft

Science Insider | U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that Genomics England, the publicly-owned company created one year ago with the mission of sequencing 100,000 human genomes, will receive the funding to reach its goal by the end of 2017.