Special Report: Bio•IT World’s 2011 Best Practices Awards
The Select Six Best Practices
Enrollment Modeling Results in Productivity Gains for Merck
Novartis’ Open Source Clinical Imaging Platform
GSK’s Helium Rises to the Top
Accelrys Pipeline Pilot Guides ONT’s Nascent NGS Data Handling
CliniWorks Provides Patients as a Service
CDD’s Tuberculosis Collaboration Tool
2011 Best Practices Entries [PDF]  

Up Front
Journal, Cloud, and Tool News from BGI
Eric Schadt Leads ‘Multiscale’ Institute at Mount Sinai
Illumina Showcases New Visions in Genomic Interpretation
Ignite Institute Finds a Match at Fox Chase
The Skeptical Outsider | Big-Bucks Biology’s Broken Business Model
The Bush Doctrine | Limits to Drug Discovery Collaboration?
Insights Outlook | The Cloud and Next Generation Sequencing
Briefs  

Clinical Trials
Euphoria over EHR/EDC Interoperability May be Misplaced
DIA 2011—Compliance, Collaboration and the Cloud 

Computational Biology
Larry Gold’s Wellness Chip Detects Disease Biomarkers in Blood
Open Source Solutions for Image Data Analysis 

Next-Gen Data
Open Source Genome Analytics for All
Ion Torrent Offers Sequencing at 'Biblical Proportions’
Charges Fly over Ion Torrent Licenses 

IT/Workflow
Gordon Puts Flash into Supercomputing
NVIDIA Unveils New Flagship GPU Processor
Panasas ActiveStor Storage Goes to 11 

In Every Issue
First Base BY KEVIN DAVIES
Best of Best Practices; an Asian Engagement 

The Russell Transcript BY JOHN RUSSELL
DREAM6 Breaks New Ground