Nov 10, 2015, 05:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Cycle Computing today announced a new version of its flagship product: CycleCloud. Version 5 is available immediately, and contains updates including a single dashboard for quickly and securely accessing and managing workloads on each of the world’s leading cloud service providers: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Engine.

Nov 9, 2015, 10:40 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Molecular diagnostics company QIAGEN has finally unveiled its DNA sequencer, the GeneReader, as a highly multiplexed clinical tool focused on somatic cancer, with full automation from sample preparation to variant interpretation.

Nov 5, 2015, 12:11 PM by Michael Croft

CHICAGO, IL - Nov 5, 2015 - Biomedical informatics, one of the world’s fastest-growing interdisciplinary fields, is the latest graduate degree program offered by the University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies

Nov 5, 2015, 10:01 AM by Michael Croft

STAT | Human Longevity, Craig Venter's latest company, has begun offering a strikingly comprehensive health scan featuring whole genome sequencing, microbiome analysis, and a series of imaging procedures. But many are skeptical any of this has real medical value.

Nov 5, 2015, 04:58 AM by Michael Croft

EDINBURGH, UK - Nov 5, 2015 - Aridhia, the Edinburgh based clinical informatics company, announced today that their AnalytiXagility data platform has been chosen to underpin a three year research programme that was awarded Innovate UK funding via the Neurodegenerative Diseases: Business Models and Big Data competition, following a joint bid by three of Northern Ireland’s leading organisations

Nov 5, 2015, 04:46 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Nov 5, 2015 - Congenica, leader in genomic interpretation and diagnostics in rare genetic disease, and GenomOncology, specialists in precision medicine technology in the field of oncology, are announcing a pilot collaboration that will support the commercialisation of each other’s products in the USA and UK respectively and offer strategic partners a scalable data platform

Nov 4, 2015, 11:32 AM by Michael Croft

TechCrunch | One of several biotechs recently backed by tech accelerator Y Combinator, Verge Genomics has closed a $4 million seed round to follow leads from its predictive algorithms for drug repurposing in neurological disease.

Nov 3, 2015, 15:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Graveley lab at the University of Connecticut has demonstrated that the handheld MinION nanopore sequencer can distinguish between RNA isoforms in Dscam1, the most alternatively spliced gene known to science.

Nov 3, 2015, 12:14 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | IBM bought Gravitant, a maker of brokerage software designed ease the purchase and management of software and services across mixed cloud platforms.

Nov 3, 2015, 10:22 AM by Michael Croft

SAN MATEO - Nov 3, 2015 - Maverix Biomics, Inc., a leading genomic analysis software company, today announced a grant program designed to foster the rapid adoption and acceleration of gene expression research using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)

Nov 3, 2015, 10:04 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, MA - Nov 3, 2015 -  

• The San Antonio 1000 Cancer Genome Project is collecting tumor and normal patient samples in the ten most common cancers from across a single metropolitan area
• WuXi NextCODE's CLIA laboratory will have sequenced the majority by year endx

Nov 3, 2015, 09:45 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Nov 3, 2015 - The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) announces that the results of its 6th blind test of crystal structure prediction methods demonstrate significant advancement in crystal structure prediction methods in comparison with previous testsx

Nov 2, 2015, 15:55 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World  | Tute Genomics announced this morning that the company has acquired Knome, one of the earliest players in the consumer genomics space. The acquisition will further develop Tute’s genomics analysis pipeline in pursuit of an integrated genomics analysis product.

Nov 2, 2015, 13:55 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Elizabeth Worthey's comment that families affected by rare disease should push for whole genome sequencing has bioinformatics Twitter abuzz today, with a passionate and detailed debate about the best use of healthcare resources in the pursuit of a genetic diagnosis.

Nov 2, 2015, 11:32 AM by Michael Croft

PROVO, UT - Nov 2, 2015 -   Tute Genomics, the leader in clinical sequencing informatics, today announced the acquisition of key assets of Knome, a renowned human-genome interpretation company whose systems and services helped spearhead several of the greatest commercial advancements in modern human genetics

Nov 2, 2015, 10:10 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | After eight years, more than $20 million raised, and an assortment of different business plans, Massachusetts genomics firm Knome has been acquired by tiny Tute Genomics of Utah.

Nov 2, 2015, 03:55 AM by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ, USA - Nov 2, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has outfitted its pharmacometrics teams with Certara’s Phoenix® software

Oct 30, 2015, 13:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including a CDC test of the Edico DRAGEN processor and new CRISPR partnerships.

Oct 30, 2015, 09:20 AM by Michael Croft

The Last Word On Nothing | Was Moore's Law originally developed as a marketing ploy for Intel?

Oct 30, 2015, 04:04 AM by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, NY - Oct 30, 2015 - Creative Bioarray, an innovative biotechnology company who produces the world's most comprehensive list of research-use cells, including tumor cells, primary cells, stem cells and transformed cells, etc, recently announced its new cryopreserved mesenteric cells for researchers, aiming to provide customers more tools for scientific study