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FAIR Hacking: Bio-IT World Hosts Its First Hackathon
Jun 9, 2017, 11:50 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | The 16th annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo featured its first Bio-IT Hackathon, a competition focusing on FAIR data, data that are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
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Text-Mining Tool Seeks Out Hidden Data
Jun 8, 2017, 16:42 PM by Michael CroftNature News & Comment | A tool called Wide-Open can search out instances of locked online research data sets that are supposed to be public, and it has already flagged hundreds of such instances in genetics research.Full story -
New Imaging Software ZEISS ZEN 2 Core
Jun 8, 2017, 16:37 PM by Michael CroftJENA, GERMANY - Jun 8, 2017 - With the new release of the imaging software ZEISS ZEN 2 core, users in laboratories are now even more efficientFull story -
Masters of Complexity: Edison Liu On The Future Of The Mouse Model
Jun 8, 2017, 09:20 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | Edison Liu, president and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory, is harnessing the JAX spirit to push the organization—and hopefully the field—toward a more mature understanding of complexity.
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A Retrospective Of The 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo
Jun 7, 2017, 08:40 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | The 16th annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo took place recently in Boston. The exhibit floor and conference sessions featured discussions and product releases from The Jackson Laboratory, the Broad Institute, and more.
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VEEDA CRO receives Best Clinical Research Organization – India award.
Jun 7, 2017, 06:43 AM by Michael CroftAHMEDABAD, N/A, INDIA - Jun 7, 2017 - Veeda Clinical Research has been awarded as " Best Clinical Research Organization - India" by Health & Safety Awards 2017 presented by Corporate Vision a leading business magazine and publication based in UKFull story -
TraceLink unveils industry’s first Compliance and Digital Information Platform for pharmacies with EU FMD requirements
Jun 7, 2017, 05:21 AM by Michael CroftBARCELONA, SPAIN - Jun 7, 2017 - Barcelona, Spain (June 7, 2017)—TraceLink Inc., the worlds largest track and trace network for connecting the life sciences supply chain and providing real-time information sharing for better patient outcomes, today unveiled an industry first: an integrated Compliance and Digital Information Platform for pharmacies with EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) requirementsFull story -
Inova Translational Medicine Institute Deploys Cloudera
Jun 6, 2017, 18:10 PM by Michael CroftBio-IT World News Brief | Inova Translational Medicine Institute today announced that it has deployed Cloudera Enterprise to securely analyze massive collections of clinical and genomic data at unprecedented speeds and scale for faster innovations in translational medicine research.Full story -
Living Long and Living Well: Is It Possible to Do Both?
Jun 6, 2017, 11:32 AM by Michael CroftBAR HARBOR, ME, UNITED STATES - Jun 6, 2017 - Exactly when does old age begin? Which health markers best predict who will live a long and healthy life versus a life spent in poor health?Developing metrics to help answer these questions and to understand the tradeoffs between lifespan and health span are the subject of a recent paper by MDI Biological Laboratory scientists in Journals of Gerontology: Biological Sciences, a publication of the Gerontological Society of AmericaFull story -
Elsevier launches new Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry to facilitate better connections between biological and chemical data
Jun 6, 2017, 11:18 AM by Michael CroftNEW YORK, NY - Jun 6, 2017 - Elsevier, the information analytics company specializing in science and health, has today released a new version of Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry to improve the discoverability and extraction of relevant chemistry data – more than twice as fast as any other solutionFull story -
Tidbits From The Trenches: BioTeam Panelists Advocate Decentralization
Jun 6, 2017, 09:00 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | A panel representing BioTeam at the 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo discuss trends in the bio-IT space, analyze cultural issues, and offer advice for practitioners in the healthcare and life-sciences space.
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Certara Launches CODEx to Inform Comparative Effectiveness and Drug Development Decisions
Jun 6, 2017, 08:17 AM by Michael CroftPRINCETON, NJ - Jun 6, 2017 - Certara®, the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today launched its Clinical Outcomes Database Explorer (CODEx)Full story -
TraceLink Unveils Automated Validation Manager, Removes Burden of Validating Software Updates for Life Sciences Cloud Customers
Jun 6, 2017, 05:30 AM by Michael CroftNORTH READING, MA, USA - Jun 6, 2017 - North Reading, Mass. (June 5, 2017)—TraceLink Inc., the Worlds Largest Track and Trace Network for connecting the life sciences supply chain and eliminating counterfeit prescription drugs from the global marketplace, today announced Automated Validation Manager (AVM) – a revolutionary web-based offering that automates the entire validation lifecycle of the TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud on an ongoing basisFull story -
At Bio-IT World, CIOs Talk Technology, Talent, And Threats
Jun 5, 2017, 10:15 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | A panel of CIOs of healthcare and life-science organizations at the 15th annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo discuss a range of topics from cybersecurity to the talent that might develop the IT realm.
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Rafael Irizarry Announced As 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award Winner
Jun 2, 2017, 07:00 AM by Michael CroftFull storyBio-IT World | Rafael Irizarry, of Harvard University and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, was recently chosen as the 2017 laureate of the 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award in the Life Sciences. In his lecture at the 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, Irizarry spoke about his collaborative efforts in Open Source Software and Educational Resources.
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Sema4 Eric Schadt’s Genomics Startup Spins Out of Sinai to Raise Cash
Jun 1, 2017, 13:52 PM by Michael CroftXconomy | Eric Schadt has been incubating a genomic data project within the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for more than five years. Today, the company, Sema4, formally launches with 300+ employees.Full story -
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Offers Funding, Engineering Help To Human Cell Atlas
Jun 1, 2017, 10:35 AM by Michael CroftBio-IT World News Brief | The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has announced financial support for the Human Cell Atlas, which is using sequencing technology to redefine every cell in the body. Funding and engineering support from CZI will enable EMBL-EBI, the Broad Institute, and the University of California Santa Cruz Genomics Institute (UCSC) to set up an open, cloud-based Data Coordination Platform to check, share, and analyze the vast amounts of diverse information generated.Full story -
Rommie Amaro on Curing Cancer at Exascale
Jun 1, 2017, 09:55 AM by Michael CroftBio-IT World | In her opening plenary keynote at the 2017 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo last week in Boston, Computing Cures: Discovery Through the Lens of a Computational Microscope, Rommie Amaro emphasized to attendees the direct correlation between advances in life-sciences IT and scientific discovery.Full story -
Genome editing Thats the way the CRISPR crumbles
Jun 1, 2017, 09:50 AM by Michael CroftNature Book Reviews | Nathaniel Comfort finds heroism but little nuance in Jennifer Doudna's account of her co-discovery.Full story -
Saint-Gobain Launches ValPlus™ Enhanced Validation Tubing Products for Bioprocessing Applications
Jun 1, 2017, 08:53 AM by Michael CroftSOLON, OH - Jun 1, 2017 - Saint-Gobains Life Science Business Unit, the trusted leader in Single-Use components and assemblies for bioprocessing, introduces another industry first capability for critical fluid applications: the ValPlus Family of tubing productsFull story