Bio-IT World | A recent Nature Reviews Genetics article explores the steps moving us toward a genomics-informed, real-time, global pathogen surveillance system, and the need for such progress.

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Despite the overwhelming volume and complexity of scientific literature, and the myriad ways of accessing and managing it, the success of an entire research organization may depend on quick, efficient, cost-effective, and unfettered access to the information contained in reference publications. So, how do biomedical and drug discovery researchers effectively transform information into useful knowledge in the Big Data era?

Bio-IT World Brief | DDN has entered into a partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to integrate DDN’s parallel file system storage and flash storage cache technology with HPE’s HPC platforms. The focus of the partnership is to accelerate and simplify customers’ workflows in technical computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning environments.

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | KPMG’s CEO Survey found that some of the largest U.S. life sciences companies are sending mixed signals about their commitment to technology and trailing other industries in their plans to adopt cutting edge technologies.

Bio-IT World Brief | Yesterday the National Institutes of Health announced twelve awards totaling $9 million in Fiscal Year 2017 to launch a National Institutes of Health Data Commons Pilot Phase. The NIH Data Commons will be implemented in a four-year pilot phase to explore the feasibility and best practices for making digital objects available through cloud-based collaborative platforms.