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.

Bio-IT World Brief | Edico Genome today announced the availability of its DRAGEN Bio-IT Platform on Illumina’s BaseSpace Sequence Hub, enabling users to now run DRAGEN instances to enhance the accuracy and speed of their secondary analysis of next-generation sequencing data.

AWS Blog | Amazon has announced that, effective October 2, usage of Linux instances that are launched in On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot form will be billed in one-second increments. Similarly, provisioned storage for EBS volumes will be billed in one-second increments. Per-second billing also applies to Amazon EMR and AWS Batch.