Bio-IT World News Brief | BioIVT today launched its Next-generation Sequencing (NGS) Service, which combines the company’s expertise in human tissue procurement, specimen selection, sample preparation and project management with its in-house NGS capabilities.

Bio-IT World | Geraldine A. Van der Auwera calls herself a benevolent dictator. She boasts the pedigree of pre-doctoral and postdoctoral years in microbiology labs, and then a shift into computation. Now, as Director of Outreach and Communications, Data Sciences Platform, at the Broad Institute, she works with all camps—scientists, biomedical researchers, data scientists, technologists.

Bio-IT World | AI can bring efficacious, precise, and effective diagnostics and therapeutics faster to the patient, and in the future, more efficient operations could save money, freeing up capital to invest in innovation.

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Today it is accepted that agile software development can work well within a formal project and most software vendors supplying the pharmaceutical industry have an agile aspect to their Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Precision medicine depends on data—more specifically, on our ability to analyze and act on it from the bench to the bedside and back again. And, we’ve long understood that our ability to direct data—both structured and unstructured—when and where it’s most needed is foundational to advancing and unlocking the promise of precision medicine.