• Buzz About Initial Findings from Mount Sinai's Resilience Project

    Apr 12, 2016, 09:45 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | The first paper connected to the Resilience Project, an effort by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to find healthy individuals carrying mutations that seemingly ought to cause severe illnesses, was published yesterday in Nature Biotechnology.
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  • Certara Launches the SIVA Toolkit 2.0 to Improve Analysis of In Vitro Drug Development Data

    Apr 12, 2016, 08:12 AM by Michael Croft
    PRINCETON, NJ - Apr 12, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today launched the Simcyp In Vitro (Data) Analysis (SIVA) Toolkit 2
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  • More News and Products from #BioIT16

    Apr 8, 2016, 12:20 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—This week’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston was a packed three days of rich content, industry news, and product announcements. We highlighted some of the early event announcements on the first day. Here is some of the news from the second half of this week.
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  • Bio-IT World Honors New Products

    Apr 7, 2016, 06:45 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—A panel of expert judges and the Bio-IT community chose to honor six new products yesterday evening at the Bio-IT World Best of Show competition. A record-breaking 46 new products in IT and the life sciences were considered this year from the 190 Bio-IT World exhibiting companies.
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  • Bio-IT World Names 2016 Best Practices Winners

    Apr 6, 2016, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—Bio-IT World announced the winners of the 2016 Best Practices Awards this morning at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo. Entries from AstraZeneca, DNAnexus, Amgen, Human Longevity, and XOMA were honored.
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  • Silicon Mechanics Names Two Research Cluster Grant Winners

    Apr 6, 2016, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—Silicon Mechanics announced the recipients of its fifth annual Research Cluster Grant (RCG) at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo today. The University of New Orleans and the University of California, Merced were each awarded a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster with the latest high-performance processing and GPU technologies valued at over $100,000 for use in demonstrated research purposes going forward.
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  • Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Kicks Off in Boston

    Apr 5, 2016, 15:30 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | BOSTON—The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo kicks off today in downtown Boston, and a host of companies have made news and announcements already. Here’s a roundup of news and notes we’ve seen so far.
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  • Cloud is ‘the future of R&D’, says IDBS at Bio-IT World

    Apr 5, 2016, 11:48 AM by Michael Croft
    LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Apr 5, 2016 -
    • IDBS sees rapid adoption of Cloud based services by small and mid-tier Pharma market 
    • Majority of large enterprise accounts planning migration to IDBS hosted Cloud over next 3 years 
    • E-WorkBook platform makes collaboration and data sharing simple 
    • Over 50,000 researchers and 80% of the top 20 pharma firms worldwide now use IDBS software 
    Boston, US & London, UK, April 5, 2016 - Today at Bio IT World Conference & Expo 2016, IDBS signalled its commitment to delivering its enterprise research and development (R&D) platform in the Cloud
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  • CloudLIMS Accelerates Research in Clinical Testing and Diagnostics

    Apr 5, 2016, 08:54 AM by Michael Croft
    WILMINGTON, DE, UNITED STATES - Apr 5, 2016 - CloudLIMS announces the release of a new version of its flagship product, BioTracer, an advanced sample management software, to accelerate research in clinical testing and diagnostic laboratories
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  • Sunquest Information Systems Acquires GeneInsight

    Apr 4, 2016, 12:15 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Brief | Sunquest Information Systems Inc. today announced the acquisition of GeneInsight Inc., an IT company that streamlines the analysis, interpretation and reporting of complex genetic tests, and was honored in 2013 at the Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards with the Editors’ Choice Award.
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  • Danforth Center Expands with New Principal Investigators

    Apr 4, 2016, 09:43 AM by Michael Croft
    ST. LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES - Apr 4, 2016 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is growing with the addition of two principal investigators, Ru Zhang, Ph
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  • ZENITH TECHNOLOGIES AND GE HEALTHCARE LIFE SCIENCES STRIKE BIOPHARMA ALLIANCE

    Apr 4, 2016, 06:43 AM by Michael Croft
    CORK, IRELAND - Apr 4, 2016 - Zenith Technologies and GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business have announced a collaboration to support biopharmaceutical manufacturing deployment
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  • CSM Announces Promotion of Brian Swites to President

    Apr 1, 2016, 16:43 PM by Michael Croft
    FARGO, ND - Apr 4, 2016 - CSM, a leading clinical trial supply company, today announced the promotion of Brian Swites to President, effective immediately
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  • Invitae Expands Genetic Testing Menu as Cheap, Inclusive Tests Are on the Rise

    Apr 1, 2016, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Invitae—which began life in 2012 promising an “all-in-one” genetic test but has since become a piecemeal provider of gene panels—has launched a new series of pediatric tests, focusing on rare, high-impact variants.
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  • April Fools Day online prank round-up (2016)

    Apr 1, 2016, 10:54 AM by Michael Croft
    Computerworld | If it's April 1, it's the day the Internet is rife with pranks. Here are some of the best we've found.
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  • Cycle Computing Presents at Bio-IT World Conference & Expo

    Mar 31, 2016, 12:47 PM by Michael Croft
    NEW YORK, NY - Mar 31, 2016 - –Cycle Computing, the leader in cloud computing orchestration software for Big Compute and Big Data, today announced that its CEO, Jason Stowe will deliver the introduction to one of the Keynote speeches at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo to be held April 5-7 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston
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  • March News and Product Briefs

    Mar 31, 2016, 10:10 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | The latest announcements and product launches from around the industry, including funding for new projects at 10X Genomics and Emulate, and the opening of a canine genotyping service.
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  • Quantum to Showcase Storage Solutions for Life Sciences Workflows at Bio-IT World Expo 2016

    Mar 30, 2016, 18:25 PM by Michael Croft
    SAN JOSE, CA - Mar 30, 2016 - Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM) today announced it will showcase multi-tier storage solutions to address challenging data management problems for genomics, bioinformatics, medical imaging and cancer researchers at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, April 5-7 (booth #557)
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  • Why Nestlé has been acting a lot like a drug company

    Mar 30, 2016, 14:20 PM by Michael Croft
    STAT | The Nestlé Health Science subsidiary is pouring money into companies targeting conditions like gut infections, muscle loss, and Alzheimer's disease.
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  • #BioIT16: Book Signings on Computational Biology in Drug Discovery and Cybersecurity

    Mar 30, 2016, 10:10 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Among the events scheduled for the 2016 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, there will be two book signings in the exhibit hall: William Loging will speak and sign Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Drug Discovery and Development and Mansur Hasib will speak and sign Cybersecurity Leadership: Powering the Modern Organization. Mary Chitty, Library Director & Taxonomist for Cambridge Healthtech Institute, takes a brief look at the two works.
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