Bio-IT World | Last April, we handed out the Bio•IT World 2010 Best Practices Awards at a lavish awards ceremony in Boston during the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. Here you’ll find profiles of the six category winners and three other awards: the Editors’ Choice Award, the Judges’ Prize, and a Community Service Award.
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Forbes | The FDA approved Novartis' generic blood thinner after a four-year review, maybe signaling more generic approvals in the coming year.
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Bio-IT World | For months, health and IT industries have been chomping at the bit to get their portion of $27 billion in federal incentive payments for the implementation of electronic health records (EHRs). On July 13, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced final rules for the "meaningful use" of EHRs.
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Best Practices Awards 2010 Best Practices Introduction Computing Stephen Jamie Heywood of PatientsLikeMe keynoted the Best Practices dinner and urged IT to take back research. Research & Discovery Protein Powered Drug Discovery IT & Informatics Creating a One Stop Shop
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By John Russell July 29, 2010 | The Russell Transcript | Is it time for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to relinquish its role as the sole arbiter of drug efficacy and to focus instead on its original
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Free Software DNA2.0 has released Gene Designer 2.0, a free software tool for designing DNA sequences. Version 2.0 delivers a sophisticated graphic interface and drag and drop functionality for creating genes, whether making alterations to naturally occurring sequences or designing
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By Kevin Davies July 26, 2010 | First Base | One of the undoubted highlights of our professional calendar is the second night of our annual Bio IT World Conference & Expo, when we host a gala dinner for the
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The challenges facing the primary producers of workflow and pipeline software—Accelrys and InforSense—may not be so much with each other as evolving in step with pharma’s needs. By John Russell July 26, 2010 | It’s tempting to paint the commercial workflow
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The competition’s goal is to improve scientific utility of genomics data. By Kevin Davies July 26, 2010 | In an effort to challenge the life sciences community to create more informative and accessible ways to look at the wealth of
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DIA 2010 proved positive and hopeful. By Ann Neuer July 26, 2010 | The 46th Annual Meeting of the Drug Information Association (DIA) held in Washington, D.C. sported a decidedly optimistic tone. Exhibitors claimed to have more traffic at their
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Parthys Reverse Informatics shifts knowledge to information to data. By Kevin Davies July 26, 2010 | It is unlikely that too many software as a service companies feature quotes from T. S. Eliot on their web site, but Parthys Reverse Informatics, based
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Clinical Trials & Research Winner FDA nominated by GlobalSubmit Project Common Table of Contents By Kevin Davies July 26, 2010 | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) doesn’t often bask in the spotlight of positive press, which must make
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Community Service Prize Winner Royal Society of Chemistry nominated by Collaborative Drug Discovery Project ChemSpider By Allison Proffitt July 26, 2010 | ChemSpider started as a “hobby project out of a basement” in 2007, says Antony Williams, ChemSpider’s VP of
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Judges’ Prize Winner goBalto Project The fastest, most effective way to connect with life science service providers By Deborah Borfitz July 26, 2010 | The online portal goBalto.com is the quintessential Silicon Valley start up, run by eight passionate, mostly
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Editors’ Choice Award Winner Merck and Co. Project A Virtual Technology Symposium By Allison Proffitt July 26, 2010 | It’s not often that you hear anything in the life sciences being compared to World of Warcraft, the wildly popular online
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Knowledge Management Winner Centocor R&D nominated by Recombinant Data Corp. Project tranSMART By Kevin Davies July 26, 2010 | One of the most gratifying aspects of awarding a Best Practices Award to a major pharmaceutical operation is to see that
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IT & Informatics HPC Winner Bristol Myers Squibb, Research & Development Project High Content Screening—Road By Alissa Poh July 26, 2010 | Like most technologies that produce reams of information, high content screening necessitates finding ways to efficiently manage and
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IT & Informatics Winner The Scripps Research Institute nominated by SciQuest Project Procurement Transformation By Allison Proffitt July 26, 2010 | The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) boasts 534 faculty, 735 post doctoral researchers, 218 graduate students and 1,445 lab and
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By Alissa Poh Research & Discovery Winner Massachusetts Institute of Technology Project Identifying Drug Effects via Pathway Alterations using an Integer Linear Programming Optimization Formulation on Phosphoproteomic Data July 26, 2010 | Whole genome methods have garnered a lot of
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July 26, 2010 | Last April, we handed out the Bio•IT World 2010 Best Practices Awards at a lavish awards ceremony in Boston during the Bio IT World Conference & Expo. Last October groups were invited to submit outstanding and
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