Bio-IT World  “How do you change the way scientists operate in a fundamental way to win them over?” Matthew Trunnell, CIO at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute, asked the crowd at the Converged IT Summit* last week in San Diego during his opening keynote. While there were plenty of the talks wading into the weeds of how to build and structure data centers, much of the conversation at the Summit tackled the more amorphous problems plaguing bio-IT today: building a community that shares data and incentivizes collaboration.

Bio-IT World News Brief | Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center  were recently awarded a federal grant from the National Cancer Institute to support a joint cancer genomics data center for the research and clinical interpretation of tumors. The grant will provide funding of $490,000 per year over the next five years.

Bio-IT World News Brief | Optibrium and Collaborative Drug Discovery announced a collaboration to integrate the StarDrop and CDD Vault platforms. This creates a connection in real time between project data, securely held and managed in CDD Vault, and StarDrop’s unique compound design and optimization capabilities. 

Bio-IT World | New technology, new laws and regulations, and more cumbersome "Big Data" have together caused the standard, traditional electronic lab notebook (ELN) to obsolesce.  But some experts believe new digital-transformation technology—including the Internet of Things and cloud computing—will allow for enhanced ELNs that can address today's clinical pain points of efficiency, ROI, scientific contextual consistency, and risk reduction.