• The Struggle With Image Glut

    May 2, 2016, 12:40 PM by Michael Croft
    Nature News & Comment | Experiments that generate millions of images have forced scientists to find new ways to store and share terabytes of experimental data.
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  • Three Pharma Data Challenges and How to Overcome Them

    Apr 29, 2016, 10:35 AM by Michael Croft

    Bio-IT World | Contributed Commentary | There’s no lack of ideas about what is needed to make advancements in life sciences research and improving patient care: real-time research, humanizing big data, enhancing customer values and motivation, and that’s just for starters. It was evident that these data struggles were on the minds of attendees at the recent Bio-IT World 2016 Conference in Boston.

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  • twoXAR Joins Stanford University in Hunt for Medicines Targeting Rare Diseases

    Apr 28, 2016, 10:53 AM by Michael Croft
    PALO ALTO, CA - Apr 28, 2016 -  twoXAR, Inc., a company dedicated to improving health through computation, today announced a collaboration with Joyce Teng, MD, PhD, of the Department of Dermatology at Stanford University to support research focused on the identification of drug candidates targeting rare disorders such as lymphatic malformation and epidermolysis bullosa simplex (EBS)
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  • AbbVie Buying Cancer Drug Startup Stemcentrx

    Apr 28, 2016, 10:18 AM by Michael Croft
    Fortune | AbbVie will buy Stemcentrx, which has five drugs targeting "cancer stem cells" in early clinical trials, for up to $10.2 billion in cash and stock.
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  • Emmanuelle Charpentier, the Quiet Revolutionary

    Apr 28, 2016, 10:16 AM by Michael Croft
    Nature News | The microbiologist spent years moving labs and relishing solitude. Then her work on gene-editing thrust her into the scientific spotlight.
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  • Certara Launches New E-learning Platform for Biosimulation Education

    Apr 28, 2016, 08:14 AM by Michael Croft
    PRINCETON, NJ - Apr 28, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today launched an e-learning platform through Certara University to satisfy the increased need for education in the burgeoning field of biosimulation or model-based drug development
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  • Montrium Releases eTMF Navigator to Provide Greater Business Intelligence for Clinical Trials

    Apr 27, 2016, 16:43 PM by Michael Croft
    MONTREAL, QC, CANADA - Apr 28, 2016 - Montrium, clinical trial technology specialists, and electronic content management software providers, today, announced the commercial release of the eTMF Navigator, an interactive intelligence dashboard integrated into eTMF Connect
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  • MDI Biological Laboratory Will Host ‘Barn Raising for Data-Intensive Discovery’ Workshop

    Apr 27, 2016, 11:25 AM by Michael Croft
    BAR HARBOR, ME - Apr 27, 2016 - BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Rapid advancements in technology are generating a mind-boggling amount of data: indeed, more data has been created in the past two years than in the entire previous history of the human race
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  • April News and Product Briefs

    Apr 27, 2016, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | The latest news and product releases from around the industry, including Novogene's new U.S. sequencing center, and a bioinformatics solution for liquid biopsies from QIAGEN.
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  • JAX and Calico Apply Mouse Genetics to Aging

    Apr 26, 2016, 12:25 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Brief | The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) and Calico today announced a multi-year collaboration focused on applying mouse genetics to the study of aging.
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  • U.S. efforts to build next-gen supercomputer take shape

    Apr 26, 2016, 12:04 PM by Michael Croft
    Computerworld | While early goals had the US achieving exascale computing by 2018, the new deadline is 2023.
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  • SwiftStack Announces 4.0 Delivering Scale and Metadata Search

    Apr 26, 2016, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World  | SwiftStack today announced the latest version of its object storage software with new customer-driven capabilities that deliver scale and metadata search as well as plans for file native access and cloud synchronization. These new features are designed to further simplify and accelerate customer journeys from traditional file systems to more flexible, scalable cloud infrastructures.
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  • UC San Francisco Gains $185 Million for Neuroscience Research

    Apr 26, 2016, 11:01 AM by Michael Croft
    FierceBiotech | In the largest ever gift to the University of California, San Francisco, the Weill Family Foundation and Joan and Sanford Weill have donated $185 million to establish the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.
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  • SDi Publishes TSM Report on Laboratory Informatics 2016

    Apr 25, 2016, 19:17 PM by Michael Croft
    LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES - Apr 22, 2016 - Strategic Directions International, Inc. announced the publication of Laboratory Informatics 2016: A Survey of LIMS, ELN/LES and SDMS End-Users
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  • Scientists at MDI Biological Laboratory Are Unlocking the Mechanisms of Parkinson’s

    Apr 21, 2016, 13:38 PM by Michael Croft
    BAR HARBOR, ME - Apr 21, 2016 - Scientists at the MDI Biological Laboratory are identifying the basic mechanisms behind Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative neurological disease affecting millions of people worldwide
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  • Illumina Opens BaseSpace Suite as End-to-End Solution for Genetic Testing Labs

    Apr 21, 2016, 10:45 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Illumina’s new, cloud-based BaseSpace Informatics Suite allows a lab with no genomic computing infrastructure of its own to track genetic tests through the laboratory, find genetic variants in human DNA, interpret the clinical importance of DNA test results, and create reports for physicians to consult when making treatment decisions.
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  • AWS Powers New Big Data Services with Giant Hard Disks

    Apr 20, 2016, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft
    Computerworld | Amazon Web Services is going retro to help companies deal with big data workloads: The cloud provider announced Tuesday that it's launching two new volume types for its Elastic Block Store service that are powered by traditional, spinning disk hard drives.
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  • Pfizer, Roche Embrace the Microbiome, Leading $43M Bet on Second Genome

    Apr 20, 2016, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft
    Forbes | Scientists are super-excited about the way cheap, fast DNA sequencing technology is making it possible to gather vivid, detailed information about the microbiome. These are the trillions of bugs in our guts, and on our skin, that humans have co-existed with since the beginning. Drug companies, until fairly recently, haven't been [...]
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  • Senators Seek to Legislate DNA Privacy, But Is It Really Possible?

    Apr 20, 2016, 11:02 AM by Michael Croft
    Techonomy | A new bill introduced by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Mike Enzi adds important privacy protections for genetic data. But real protection will be tough.
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  • MDI Biological Laboratory Awarded Grant from Glenn Foundation to Study Aging

    Apr 20, 2016, 10:27 AM by Michael Croft
    BAR HARBOR, ME - Apr 20, 2016 - The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced that it has received a grant to support a new course on aging that will draw internationally renowned scientists to Bar Harbor, Maine, to examine fundamental questions about our ability to repair and regenerate tissue as we age
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