Bio-IT World | Coinciding with the Institute’s 10-year anniversary, HudsonAlpha hosted their second Genomic Medicine Conference this week on their campus in Huntsville, Ala. For two and a half days researchers, geneticists and healthcare professionals told their stories about how genomic data has impacted their respective professions and how the data they have been collecting influences their patients.

Bio-IT World Brief | PerkinElmer has announced a collaboration with Helix to develop and commercialize exome sequencing-based tests that will empower consumers to make proactive health management decisions. Tests developed as part of this collaboration will be available to customers of Helix’s expanding online marketplace for DNA-powered products.

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Increased use of electronic health records and other digital data has brought what amounts to a deluge of potential evidence, one that never ends. A “learning health system” can create the equivalent of a hydroelectric dam – a place to catch all of those raindrops in one place and release them in a coordinated, powerful way.

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Over the last decade, early business uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI), or machine learning, in life sciences have proven successful in drug discovery – predicting molecule-target bonding, identifying new biomarkers, and uncovering new drug indications. Now machine learning is gaining broader traction into other areas, including commercial operations, and transforming the way the industry collects, synthesizes, and uses data.

Bio-IT World | If you are creating a tool designed to give a sixth sense, of course you name it after a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia. Not unlike the animal, Takeda’s Platypus is made up of various parts, specifically designed to meet the medical reviewer’s needs.