Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | BIO IT World | Archives | Advertising | CHI Conferences | Subscribe THIS WEEK IN THE NEWS Small Data Finding Could Help Big Data QualityBio IT World Guest Commentary | I get to have the most fun when someone wants to collaborate on a
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Wall Street Journal | The diagnostics market is its most attractive since 2007, and health care is the best performing sector of the public market right now.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 | BIO IT World | Archives | Advertising | CHI Conferences | Subscribe THIS WEEK IN BIO IT WORLD The Last First Base Bio IT World | First Base | I received an email alert over the weekend with the following title "Kevin Davies Reflects onEmotional
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013 | BIO IT World | Archives | Advertising | CHI Conferences | Subscribe THIS WEEK IN BIO IT WORLD NIH Seeks New ADDition in a Data Science Director Bio IT World | BETHESDA, MD—With two weeks left to the application deadline, the National Institutes of
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Boston.com | GNS Healthcare's Colin Hill has been around for a while. But now is time for big data in personalized medicine, he says.
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Huffington Post | What does the sequestration mean for science? One researcher says it will mean an exodus from science for young scientists as National Institute of Health grants are denied and top talent can’t find work—the ultimate brain drain.
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Bio-IT World | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research is getting a major boost from a newly launched Pooled Resource Open-access ALS Clinical Trials (PRO-ACT) platform, which has amassed more than 8,500 de-identified clinical patient records into a single, harmonized dataset. Multiple pharmaceutical companies are now actively exploring PRO-ACT, seeking ways to streamline clinical trials and develop better treatments for the rare and highly heterogeneous disease more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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Forbes | IMS Health today released a report through its Institute for Healthcare Informatics saying that overall spending on U.S. medicines dropped fell 3.5% in 2012.
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Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World is hosting its second annual Bio-IT World Asia event in Singapore at the end of May—expanded to five tracks. If the plush location at the Marina Bay Sands hotel wasn’t incentive enough, there are four days packed with essential life sciences programming covering IT infrastructure, the cloud, clinical and cancer genomics, bioinformatics and more.
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Bio-IT World | BETHESDA, MD—With two weeks left to the application deadline, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is still searching for the ideal candidate to fill a plumb new job in biomedical data science.
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Bio-IT World | BOSTON—In a presentation marked by equal parts melancholy and excitement, Dr. Kevin Hrusovsky spoke at the 2013 Bio-IT World Expo on some of the recent advancements and setbacks in cancer therapeutics.
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Bio-IT World Video | Major changes loom on the horizon for health care. John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center shares his outlook on the future state of care with Bio-IT World Editor-in-Chief, Kevin Davies.
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Clinical Research Informaticist, Sr. Clinical Research Informatics Duke Clinical Research Institute Durham, NC Occupational Summary The Clinical Research Informaticist, Sr. position is a leadership role on significantly large and/or complex (often novel) clinical research projects. This includes the
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Informatics Project Leader II Clinical Research Informatics Duke Clinical Research Institute Durham, NC Occupational Summary The Informatics Project Leader II position provides leadership to the department and projects for application of information technology to the discipline of clinical research
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Bio-IT World | The Bio-IT World Best of Show Awards were announced tonight at the 2013 Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston. New products were recognized from ePharmaSolutions, Bright Computing, Seven Bridges Genomics, and Biofortis.
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Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World announced the winners of its ninth Best Practices Awards competition this morning in a plenary session at the 2013 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston. Grand prize winners were named in four life sciences categories highlighting best practices in genomics, cloud computing, big data in disease research, and big pharma data management. In addition, a Judges’ Prize and Editors’ Choice Award were given.
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Bio-IT World | While there has been considerable focus of late on new bioinformatics approaches and platforms for the downstream interpretation of genome sequences in a clinical context, there is still a lot of work to be done to improve the quality and consistency of next-gen sequencing variant calling and read alignment. Arpeggi, co-founded by CEO Nir Leibovich, hopes to interface with the community to help establish standards and best practices for NGS data analysis. Bio-IT World editor Kevin Davies recently asked Leibovich to outline his company’s core strengths and business proposition.
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Bio-IT World | The Skeptical Outsider |The controversy surrounding the $400-million Encode project’s dubious public relations claims surrounding the function of ‘junk DNA’ and the Battelle Institute’s defense of the $3-billion Human Genome Project (HGP) as economically beneficial (as cited in the recent State of the Union address) make this a good time to examine President Obama’s attempts to bring more of American science under centralized direction and control.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | BIO IT World | Archives | Advertising | CHI Conferences | Subscribe THIS WEEK IN BIO IT WORLD March Product and News BriefsBio IT World | News briefs for March including updates from Ingenuity, GeneInsight, University of Auckland, and the Research Resonance Network. New
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | BIO IT World | Archives | Advertising | CHI Conferences | Subscribe THIS WEEK IN BIO IT WORLD February News and Product BriefsBio IT World | News and product briefs from around the industry. Non invasive prenatal test launches advances in clinical genomic diagnostics LIMS
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