Bio-IT World | As scientists across the globe bring their expertise to bear on the coronavirus pandemic, researchers in Tennessee are bringing big compute. Researchers are using Summit, the world’s fastest supercomputer housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), to identify compounds that may effectively combat the virus. Summit is powered by 9,216 IBM Power9 CPUs and over 27,000 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs.

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Achieving a single view of the patient has been a key challenge for the life sciences industry, given the inherently siloed nature of organizations in the sector. However, as patient centricity increasingly becomes the crux of all life science organizations, the pace of digitization within the industry has picked up significantly.

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | The pharma industry is at crossroad, where pricing pressures, focus on outcomes, complex drug portfolios and a challenging regulatory environment cast a shadow over it. However, these challenges also bring with them the opportunity to transform.

Bio-IT World | Data is the most valuable resource on the market today, and there’s a lot of it. When it comes to processing health data, the solution may be neural networks. Not AI to replace doctors, says Eric Topol, but AI to empower doctors.

Bio-IT World | The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health’s Xiaole Shirley Liu has been named the 2020 Benjamin Franklin Award Laureate, Bioinformatics.org announced today.

Bio-IT World | It may be surprising that with a PhD in biochemistry, Brigitte Raumann spends a lot of time these days considering data storage and transport in high energy physics and astronomy. But that also puts her in the perfect position to recognize some of the lessons from those disciplines that the life sciences can pick up.