Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World is accepting entries to the 2018 Bio-IT World Best Practices competition. For the past fifteen years, the Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards have highlighted outstanding examples of innovations and partnerships serving as powerful forces for change in the life sciences.

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | In the field of biobanking, where it is common for biobanks to evolve for different purposes, in disparate locations, and with isolated informatics systems, it’s no surprise that communication within and across biobanks, even within one institution, is challenging and fraught with miscommunications.

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Next-generation sequencing continues to offer new hope for scientists and clinicians focused on everything from rare disease to cancer. Still, the clinical application of genomics could use some crucial improvements— perhaps none more urgent than standardized automated tools for genome interpretation.

Bio-IT World | In recent years, Celgene has been doubling down on its information analytics capabilities, and in January it launched an internal big data platform to more cohesively manage data to drive decision-making from pre-clinical research through commercialization.

Bio-IT World Brief | Deep Genomics received a USD $13 million equity investment led by Khosla Ventures. They are accompanied by early stage investment firm True Ventures. In the next three years, Deep Genomics will use its platform to unlock new classes of anti-sense oligonucleotide therapies that were previously inaccessible, and advance them for clinical evaluation.

Bio-IT World | September featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Congenica, PerkinElmer, Illumina, and more.

Hartford Courant | The Jackson Laboratory is suing to stop Nanjing University, whom it accuses of selling offspring of the genomics center’s mice used for research.