CONTENTS: NOV. - DEC. 2008

COVER STORY

Keeping Score of Your Sequence
Twelve months after the debut of the first personal genomics services, Kevin Davies expectorates and explores the pros, cons, and controversies of “23 et al.”

 

UP FRONT

Complete Genomics Targets ‘The First $1000 Genome’
Sequencing service is on track for spring 2009.

Riding Out the Storm
Nothing Ventured | How VCs can survive the current economy.

The Business of Stem Cells
Insights | Outlook | Stem cell research and therapies are poised to be big business.

Briefs

 

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Grappling with the Next-Gen Data Glut 
Storage and data management drain resources even as sequencing speeds up.

 

COMPUTATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Breathing New Life into Old Drugs
ChanTest scours the Orange Book for drug hopefuls.

 

IT/WORKFLOW

Triple Play
Tripos’ collaboration with Wyeth enhances research and workflow efficiency.

 

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Clarix Joins Phase Forward
Purchase joins EDC and interactive response technology

Double Layer of Semantics
BRIDG aims to synchronize CDISC and HL7 semantics.

Flexibility in Translational Research Informatics
Tools are becoming increasingly crucial to integrate and analyze translational data. 

 

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

A Celebration of Spanish Science
BIOSPAIN 2008 encouraged global biotechnology.

Dutch Drug Development Heats Up
Government, academia, and industry stoke the life sciences fires.

A Scandinavian Bridge to Somewhere
Denmark and Sweden focus on personalized medicine and innovative science. 

 

IN EVERY ISSUE

Decoding a Mystery
By Kevin Davies
FIRST BASE | Decode Genetics struggles to define the business plan in Iceland.

Microsoft: Eyes on the LS Enterprise
By John Russell
THE RUSSELL TRANSCRIPT | Microsoft positions itself to make a life sciences play.

New Products


White Papers & Special Reports

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Managing the Modern Genomics Data Flood
Sponsored by SGI

Managing and storing the perfect storm of multi-disciplined data pouring from next generation sequencers and other omics instruments is a central challenge in life sciences. Discover in this paper how the SGI ArcFiniti storage solution, optimized for unstructured genomics and life sciences data can: 

  • Reduce costs, proactively protect data integrity, and deliver the high performance I/O required for genomics data processing and analysis.  
  • Effectively manage capacities from 156TB to 1.4PB as a disk based, integrated hardware and software platform 


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Turning Genomics Data into Practical Insight
Sponsored by SGI

With worldwide sequencing capacity approaching 13 quadrillion DNA bases annually turning genomics data into knowledge is a true computational challenge. Read this paper and learn how the SGI UV coherent shared memory platform can:  

  • Speed results time while cost competitively tackling the most difficult computational problems across all omics disciplines. 
  • Push performance by scaling to extraordinary levels, up to 256 sockets (2,560 cores, 4,096 threads) per single system (one OS image). 

Provide support for up to 16TB of coherent shared memory in a single system image enabling extreme efficiency across a wide range of compute demands. 



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New Complimentary Market Survey…
Collaborations and Communications Within Drug Discovery Research
Sponsored by Accelrys
This survey was conducted by the Cambridge Healthtech Media Group in January, 2012. It was sponsored by Accelrys related to their HEOS initiative to gather valid information around externalizing collaborative research while improving communications in the cloud. With 310 qualified industry respondents the survey findings reveal useful usage and trends patterns.  An insightful follow-on discussion and webinar related to this survey, and the HEOS by Scynexis SaaS portal is also available on the Bio-IT World website for complementary viewing.
 


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