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Kevin Davies Named 2017 Guggenheim Fellow
Bio-IT World Brief | Congratulations are in order for Bio-IT World's founding editor, Kevin Davies. Kevin was just named a 2017 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Apr 7, 2017
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tranSMART Foundation, i2b2 Foundation Merge
Bio-IT World The tranSMART Foundation and the i2b2 Foundation are merging into a single foundation to advance the field of precision medicine. These organizations provide open-source software and databases representing more than 100 million patient lives to thousands of physicians and scientists worldwide.
Apr 6, 2017
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From Black Hole To Data Big Bang: Open Patent Chemistry Pips 20 Million Structures
Bio-IT World | While companies have always been aware of the crucial importance of patent disclosures in the context of intellectual property (IP), appreciation of their value as a data source is slowly increasing in the academic biomedical sector, particularly for medicinal chemistry as applied to drug discovery.
Apr 6, 2017
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Chinese Researchers Publish Comparisons Of BGISEQ-500, HiSeq2500
Bio-IT World Brief | Researchers from China’s National Institutes for Food and Drug Control have published reference data of the BGISEQ-500 sequencing platform compared to Illumina’s HiSeq2500 platform.
Apr 5, 2017
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How The Genomics Revolution Could Finally Help Africa
Nature News & Comment | New investments promise to get precision medicine and precision public health off the ground. But experts debate how much work needs to be done first.
Apr 5, 2017
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Qumulo Led by Isilon Execs Raises $30M to Push Data Storage Sales
Xconomy | Qumulo's founders, leadership team, and investors are all betting that the Seattle data storage technology provider can deliver a repeat of another local success story.
Apr 4, 2017
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2017 Benjamin Franklin Award Winner Announced
Bio-IT World Brief | Rafael Irizarry, of Harvard University and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, has been chosen as the 2017 laureate of the 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award in the Life Sciences.
Apr 4, 2017
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Web’s Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Wins The Nobel Prize Of Computing
MIT Technology Review | Tim Berners-Lee has been awarded the ACM Turing Prize. Berners-Lee says Web access is a human right-and the technology he created needs a rethink.
Apr 4, 2017
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Fifteen Years: Where Biotech Has Been And Where It Is Going
Bio-IT World | 2017 marks the 15th anniversary of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston. Several friends of Bio-IT World weigh in on the biggest opportunities and biggest roadblocks to bio-IT, research computing, drug discovery, and precision medicine in the next 15 years.
Apr 3, 2017
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Enters Collaboration To Leverage Foundation Medicine’s Molecular Information Platform
Bio-IT World Brief | Bristol-Myers Squibb and Foundation Medicine announced a collaboration that leverages Foundation Medicine’s comprehensive genomic profiling and molecular information solutions to identify predictive biomarkers such as Tumor Mutational Burden and Microsatellite Instability in patients enrolled across clinical trials investigating Bristol-Myers Squibb’s cancer immunotherapies.
Apr 3, 2017
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Georgetown University, 10x Genomics, Jackson Laboratory, And More: News From March 2017
Bio-IT World Brief | News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community including news from Georgetown University, 10x Genomics, Jackson Laboratory, and more.
Mar 30, 2017
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Hi-C The Game-Changing Technique That Cracked the Zika-Mosquito Genome
The Atlantic | "Hi-C" will make it much easier and cheaper to assemble all of an organism's genetic material from scratch.
Mar 29, 2017
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Fabric Genomics: New Identity, Partnerships, Products for Omicia
Bio-IT World | Omicia rebranded last week, relaunching itself as Fabric Genomics with new products and new partnerships.
Mar 29, 2017
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Silicon Valley’s Quest to Live Forever
The New Yorker | Can billions of dollars' worth of high-tech research succeed in making death optional?
Mar 28, 2017
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2017 Benjamin Franklin Award Finalists Announced
Bio-IT World | Bioinformatics.org has announced five finalists for the 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences. The winner will be announced onsite at the 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo.
Mar 24, 2017
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GSK and Regeneron to mine gene data from 500000 Britons
Reuters | Britain's GlaxoSmithKline and U.S.-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals are embarking on a joint project with UK Biobank, the world's most detailed biomedical database, to hunt for new clues linking genes and disease.
Mar 23, 2017
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A Scholarly Sting Operation Shines a Light on ‘Predatory’ Journals
The New York Times | A group of researchers created a ruse to draw attention to the seamy side of open-access journals, some of which will publish just about anything for a fee.
Mar 22, 2017
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Follow The Customer: DNAnexus On The New Wave In Bioinformatics
Bio-IT World | The sequencing space has changed rapidly in the past few years, and DNAnexus has followed their customers, keeping pace with the evolution. Now CEO Richard Daly is looking forward to the next phase of company growth, this time in the cloud.
Mar 22, 2017
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Human Longevity Launches Whole Genome Product, MassMutual Partnerships
Bio-IT World | Human Longevity, Inc. and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. announced an agreement to offer HLI's new whole genome sequencing product, HLIQ Whole Genome, to eligible MassMutual customers, employees, and financial professionals at a reduced price.
Mar 20, 2017
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Nvidia And Bosch Team Up On Self-Driving Car AI Supercomputer
TechCrunch | Nvidia's new partner in bringing AI-powered self-driving tech to the masses definitely has the experience needed to go truly mass-market - it's Bosch.
Mar 17, 2017