2015 Bio-IT World Best Practices Finalists Announced

April 2, 2015 | Bio-IT World announced finalists in its 2015 Best Practices Award competition this morning. The 22 finalists will compete for seven awards chosen by a panel of expert judges. The winners will be announced during the keynote session at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo on April 22, in Boston.

Since 2003, the Best Practices Awards have highlighted outstanding examples of how technology innovations and strategic initiatives can be powerful forces for change in the life sciences, from basic biomedical research to drug development and beyond. More than 75 projects have been recognized. 

The finalists and their entries are: 

AstraZeneca, nominated by Tessella 

PredICT (Predictive In vivo Calculation Tool) 

 

Biogen Idec 

Augmenting the Reality of Scientific Posters 

 

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Real World Research with Big Data Infrastructure 

 

Compendia Bioscience (Life Technologies), nominated by Cycle Computing

Gene Fusion Detection Science 

 

GENALICE, nominated by deCODE genetics

A breakthrough Aligned Reads storage format to accelerate clinical application of NGS Data 

 

DigitalizaTXT, nominated by Clinovo

Moving from paper-based trials to EDC using ClinCapture 

 

European Lead Factory Consortium, nominated by Biovia

ScienceCloud: A Scientific Informatics System for the European Lead Factory Project 

 

Genentech

Speeding up Drug Research with MongoDB: Introducing MongoDB into an RDBMS Environment 

 

GlaxoSmithKline, nominated by Epidemico

Project CRAWL 

 

Maverix Biomics

99 Lives Cat Genome Sequencing Initiative 

 

Michael J Fox Foundation, nominated by tranSMART

Open data repository for Parkinson’s disease research 

 

National Institutes of Health Undiagnosed Diseases Program, nominated by Appistry

Undiagnosed Diseases Program Integrated Collaboration System (UDPICS) 

 

New England Biolabs

Ebase, Enzyme Information Management at NEB 

 

Pfizer, nominated by Thomson Reuters

Intelligent Data Framework (IDF) Konnect 

 

Pfizer

Innovative IDEAS 

 

Pfizer Oncology Research Unit

OASIS 

 

Regeneron Genetics Center, nominated by DNAnexus

How Cloud Computing is Redefining Research: Secure, Collaborative Science at Scale 

 

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, nominated by Arxspan

Chemical Registration Workflow Productivity Improvement of 92% 

 

Tufts University, Chemistry Department, nominated by EPAM Systems

Total Sample Metabolomic Profiling 

 

UCB BioPharma S.P.R.L., nominated by EPAM Systems

Automated Accelerometric Detection of Epileptic Seizures in Rodents 

 

University of California, Santa Cruz, nominated by Annai Systems

Overcoming cancer through the power of torrential data 

 

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