Sep 10, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

THOUSAND OAKS, CA - Sep 10, 2014 - Software engineers at Ceres, Inc. announced today that they are looking for life science specialists in various fields to test a cloud service edition of the company’s Persephone genome visualization application

Sep 9, 2014, 11:45 AM by Michael Croft

BostInno | Sangeeta Bhatia, director of MIT's Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies, today received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize awarded to mid-career inventors "who have developed a patented product or process of significant value to society."

Sep 9, 2014, 08:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bioscience Technology | The pond-dwelling protist Oxytricha Trifallax, already known for the genomic oddity of having roughly 16,000 chromosomes, has revealed an even more remarkable quirk in its native DNA.

Sep 8, 2014, 14:20 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Gene sequencing company Illumina has joined with four major cancer centers to found the Actionable Genome Consortium, an organization dedicated to publicizing standards for cancer genetics.

Sep 8, 2014, 10:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Coinciding with the completion of an early phase of the NIH-funded Roadmap Epigenomics Project, a team at Washington University in St. Louis has created a genome browser with added capabilities to deal with epigenetic data.

Sep 8, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA, US - Sep 8, 2014 - The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today released its annual synopsis of pharmaceutical industry trends in its 2014 Pharmaceutical R&D Factbook, compiled by CMR International, a Thomson Reuters business and world leader in global pharmaceutical R&D performance metrics

Sep 8, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Sep 8, 2014 - Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, has again been honored with the 2014 When Work Works Award

Sep 8, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

RICHARDSON, TX - Sep 8, 2014 - Bluebee, a next generation sequencing data analysis provider and Convey Computer Corporation, the leader in hybrid-core computing for accelerating data analytics, today announced a distribution agreement that strengthens both companies’ bioinformatics offerings

Sep 4, 2014, 08:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Edico Genome, which claims its DRAGEN chip can assemble a whole human genome and call variants in as little as 20 minutes, has made its first sale of the device to prenatal testing company Sequenom, which will use the DRAGEN to search for genetic disorders in fetal DNA samples.

Sep 4, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Sep 4, 2014 - Eagle Genomics, a bioinformatics software and services company propelling new opportunities in large scale omics data and its application to real world problems in health and wellness, food and environmental sectors, has launched Eaglecore™, a software platform to improve bioinformatics research

Sep 2, 2014, 11:10 AM by Michael Croft

New York Times | As the modENCODE project catalogues the transcription factors and other regulatory elements at work in fruit fly and worm cells at various stages of development, scientists are learning that many of the genetic regulatory elements at work in humans have deep evolutionary roots.

Sep 2, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BOSTON, MA - Sep 2, 2014 - Terascala, the industry leader in HPC management software, today announced a partnership with a global  IT services and solutions provider, to expand its integrated support model that ensures system-wide high availability for HPC storage appliances

Sep 2, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PORTLAND, OR, UNITED STATES - Sep 2, 2014 - The new report by Allied Market Research titled, "DNA diagnostics Market (products, applications, techniques, end users and Geography) Global Size, Industry Analysis, Trends, Opportunities, Growth and Forecast, 2013 - 2020," indicates that the global DNA diagnostics market would reach $19 billion by 2020 registering a CAGR of 9

Aug 29, 2014, 11:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | This week, the NIH issued its long awaited Genomic Data Sharing Policy, which encourages researchers to obtain the broadest possible patient consent for open data sharing, while at the same time considering new privacy measures to protect vulnerable patient populations.

Aug 29, 2014, 08:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including a trial to support broad genotyping of tumors, and new annotation tools from Appistry.

Aug 29, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

GRANADA AND ZARAGOZA, SPAIN - Aug 29, 2014 - Era7 Bioinformatics and Comercial Rafer announced today that Rafer has made a strategic investment in Era7 Bioinformatics to accelerate the International expansion of Era7 Bioinformatics, the bacterial genomics company

Aug 28, 2014, 10:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Berg, a Cambridge-based pharma company, believes human cells may be harboring compounds that could be used to treat diabetes, cancer, and neurological diseases. To find them, they're handing tissue samples over to their in-house data mining platform, Interrogative Biology.

Aug 26, 2014, 09:10 AM by Michael Croft

Chemical & Engineering News | Armed with new technologies to identify food products on a molecular level, regulators are combating the multi-billion dollar international practice of food fraud.

Aug 26, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Aug 26, 2014 -  Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced the Genedata® Screener Global User Group Meetings will be held in Asia, Europe, and North America during September 2014

Aug 25, 2014, 10:25 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | At the Next Generation Dx Summit in Washington, DC, Justin Zook of the National Institute of Standards and Technology discussed the pace of progress at the Genome in a Bottle Consortium, including new reference materials and the project's role in FDA evaluation of next-generation sequencing technologies.