Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | A few years back, AstraZeneca started on a journey to adopt and implement an enterprise-level screening platform for use company-wide. Here are some of the important milestones in that journey.

Bio-IT World Brief | News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including The Jackson Laboratory, Illumina, Sinequa, and more.

Nature Genetics | FAIR Data is data that should be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable by both humans and machines. Nature Genetics is calling for submissions containing linked open data models that embody and extend the FAIR principles.

Bio-IT World Brief | In a new paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, along with collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine, report the results of the 4 year, NIH-funded MedSeq Project, the first-ever randomized trial conducted to examine the impact of whole genome sequencing in healthy primary care patients.

Bio-IT World | Why diverse datasets are needed to enhance genomic interpretation and speed the progress of precision medicine.

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Understanding what data is at risk during a ransomware attack is the first and most critical step to take, in order to prevent a large-scale disaster.