Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Cybercriminals are stealing healthcare data by targeting vendors and third parties, both of which often have weaker security in place. In May 2017, The American Institute of CPAs released their Cybersecurity Attestation Framework. Also known as Service Organization Control for cybersecurity, this framework builds on top of the long-established Trust Services Principles reporting.

Bio-IT World Brief | Novogene and Pacific Biosciences of California have agreed to jointly develop and promote novel applications based on the PacBio Sequel System. New applications developed under this agreement are expected to focus on basic and translational research in the field of precision medicine, including methods for sample processing, workflow automation, algorithm development, and database construction.

Bio-IT World Brief | Align Biopharma today introduced 14 leading biopharma companies and technology and service providers as new members. The group now includes a total of 23 members dedicated to making it easier for healthcare professionals to connect digitally with life sciences companies.

Bio-IT World Brief | Thermo Fisher Scientific and SRI International today announced the results of a collaboration agreement to enable researchers to combine the results of high-resolution Orbitrap LC/MS experiments with highly curated and organism-specific metabolic pathway and genome data for quick and effective mass spectrometry-based small molecule research and analysis.