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.

Aug 25, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

RHEINBACH, GERMANY - Aug 25, 2014 - Global research and analytics firm Evalueserve announced today the acquisition of German business intelligence provider Beyond Data GmbH

Aug 21, 2014, 10:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina today announced collaborations with AstraZeneca, Sanofi, and Janssen Biotech, to participate in patient stratification for the development of new cancer drugs by offering a multi-gene panel that covers key cancer mutations.

Aug 21, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ROCKVILLE, MD - Aug 21, 2014 -  Relief for Allergy Sufferers Finally in Sight: Immunomic Therapeutics Closes in on Treatment for Hay Fever in Japan, U

Aug 21, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

THE WOODLANDS, TX, UNITED STATES - Aug 21, 2014 - MolecularHealth announced today an important new component of its TreatmentMAP™ offering in the United States, called MolecularHealth™ RxAssistance

Aug 20, 2014, 06:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | After presenting an open source pipeline for analyzing cancer genomes at Cold Spring Harbor this May, Seven Bridges is seeking hospital and lab partners to test the system in a clinical setting.

Aug 20, 2014, 06:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | GeneDx, a commercial genetic diagnostics lab located in Gaithersburg, Maryland, this week filed eleven petitions to invalidate patent claims held by Myriad Genetics, adding another new thread to the increasingly complicated web of litigation surrounding Myriad.

Aug 20, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BISHOP'S STORTFORD, UK - Aug 20, 2014 - ~~Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, announced today that Prof

Aug 19, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Aug 19, 2014 - The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world leader in intelligent information for businesses and professionals, released a comprehensive disease profile on Ebola Virus Disease that includes a detailed analysis of two new treatments in the pipeline and two experimental candidates approaching development

Aug 18, 2014, 13:05 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A team from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has released an open source algorithm, called Scalpel, for finding insertions and deletions in next generation sequencing data sets, and published a paper in Nature Methods using this tool to identify mutations in children affected by autism.

Aug 18, 2014, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Jason Bloomberg speaks to pharma executives and industry observers who believe top drug companies could soon focus more of their efforts on creating electronic health platforms, collecting user data and to more precisely define disease risks and personalize prevention and treatment.

Aug 18, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

LUND, SWEDEN - Aug 18, 2014 - Phase Holographic Imaging today announces a collaboration agreement with Northeastern University of Boston

Aug 18, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ESPOO, FINLAND - Aug 18, 2014 - BC Platforms has been qualified to receive Tekes funding for its R&D program for its large-scale clinical and genomic R&D solutions

Aug 15, 2014, 12:45 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A paper posted this week to the preprint server bioRxiv describes MHAP, a new tool that can reportedly assemble whole genomes de novo from long-read sequencing data hundreds of times faster than previous workflows.

Aug 15, 2014, 09:50 AM by Michael Croft

Regulatory Focus | The FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) is piloting a program that would let companies track the progress of medical devices and diagnostic tests submitted for premarket approval through the agency's review process.