Feb 16, 2015, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BioNano’s Irys platform doesn’t sequence DNA. Instead, it’s all about assembly: sorting out exactly where different parts of the genome fit into chromosomes. The company says Irys is the only commercially available system that can handle structural variations in large, complex genomes.

Feb 16, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

SAN MATEO, CA - Feb 16, 2015 - Maverix Biomics Inc., today announced at the 23rd International Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference (Tricon) in San Francisco CA that the company has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, to streamline the interpretation of raw next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to reveal new insights and to assist with critical decision making

Feb 12, 2015, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The 2015 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences is now open for voting by Bioinformatics.org winners. Voting will close on February 23, and the winner will be announced in April at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo.

Feb 12, 2015, 13:20 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Invitae, a genetic testing company founded by former Genomic Health CEO Randy Scott, raised $102 million today in an initial public offering.

Feb 12, 2015, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Hugh Rienhoff and his daughter Bea have talked publicly of their clinical odyssey searching for a cause for Bea's ultra-rare condition. Now, Bea is to be the subject of a documentary currently raising funding on Kickstarter.

Feb 11, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM - Feb 11, 2015 - Vicon, the motion capture technology specialist for the life science, entertainment and engineering industries, is predicting changing working practices and technology innovation will drive the adoption of motion capture technology in the medical science sector

Feb 11, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, NY - Feb 11, 2015 - In the world of bioscience, Nanobodies (Nbs) or single-domain antibodies are among the smallest and most stable binder scaffolds known by now

Feb 11, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CAMDEN, NJ - Feb 11, 2015 - Coriell Life Sciences was named a winner of a 2015 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Cloud Solution Hosted on SoftLayer

Feb 10, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

DURHAM, NC, UNITED STATES - Feb 10, 2015 - While the merits of the proposed Precision Medicine Initiative are hotly debated, Cloud Pharmaceuticals, a drug development start-up in Durham, North Carolina, has been quietly making the promise of precision medicine more attainable

Feb 10, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ESPOO, FINLAND - Feb 10, 2015 - Bioinformatics software developer BC Platforms and CSC – IT Center for Science, together with researchers from University of Helsinki, have piloted a secure next-generation cloud service for managing and analyzing genomic data

Feb 10, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

New York Times | Dr. Barbara Sampson was named New York's chief medical examiner late last year, becoming the first woman to head the office as it seeks to right itself after high-profile mistakes.

Feb 10, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

WIRED | When it comes to high-risk, infectious diseases, early detection can make all the difference in getting ill patients some much-needed treatment. In some cases, it may even help stem an outbreak. This becomes incredibly critical in the developing world, where there are fewer resources to go around.

Feb 9, 2015, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Roche has added another company to its Roche Sequencing Unit. Signature Diagnostics AG, a privately held company based in Potsdam, Germany, will be joining other recent Roche acquisitions Bina Technologies and Genia Technologies.

Feb 9, 2015, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Reference Genomics, one of the first biotech startups funded by Silicon Valley's famous seed accelerator Y Combinator, is trying to revamp how microbial geneticists search through large reference databases of genomes with its online platform One Codex.

Feb 6, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

New York Times | Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College mapped DNA found in New York's subway system, finding that almost half the genetic material did not match any known organism.

Feb 4, 2015, 12:15 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The National Human Genome Research Institute has announced an update to its Informed Consent Resource, to reflect its new preference for obtaining the "broadest possible sharing permissions" for genomic data as studies increasingly rely on very large patient cohorts to understand personal health risks.

Feb 4, 2015, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Feb 4, 2015 -  Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced its Combination Screening Colloquium at the 4th Annual Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Conference and Exhibition in Washington, DC (February 8)

Feb 3, 2015, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Feb 3, 2015, 11:30 AM by Michael Croft

New York Times | In the wake of President Obama's proposal for a coordinated Precision Medicine Initiative, Gina Kolata writes that the program's real promise is not mass sequencing or data collection, but a database architecture that would allow patient information from multiple research projects to be smoothly combined.

Feb 3, 2015, 10:40 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including new analysis technology for Sequenom's non-invasive prenatal tests.