Jul 16, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Jul 16, 2014 - David Hall Joins Rho as Principal Investigator of BioinformaticsGenome informatics specialist played central role in business development activities resulting in award of more than $40M in federal contracts with bioinformatics and -omics focus Chapel Hill, NC  ̶  DATE  Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, today announced that David Hall has joined its team as a principal investigator (PI) specializing in bioinformatics at its Research Triangle Park headquarters in North Carolina

Jul 16, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BILLERICA, MA - Jul 16, 2014 - RainDance Technologies, Inc., a genomics tools company simplifying the analysis of complex genetic diseases, today announced the appointment of Kathy Ordoñez to its Board of Directors

Jul 16, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

ROCHESTER, NY, UNITED STATES - Jul 16, 2014 - The Clinical Conductor CTMS team is proud to announce yet another major advancement in CTMS technology

Jul 15, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | IBM is gaining cloud ground with its SoftLayer product, Big Blue says, reporting 6,000 new customers in the last year and $1.2 billion invested in data centers.

Jul 15, 2014, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Transcriptic today launched the Transcriptic Platform, their own cloud-based programmable system for defining and executing experimental protocols. The company says the platform can create a 10-fold productivity advantage for researchers working on molecular and cell biology.

Jul 14, 2014, 10:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), China's gene sequencing powerhouse, has released a set of reference genes for the human gut microbiome, in a catalogue that is substantially larger and covers a greater diversity of human populations than any previous resources.

Jul 14, 2014, 06:00 AM by Michael Croft

Technology Review | Illumina has been chosen as the "preferred partner" for the UK's 100,000 genomes project. Genomics England chose Illumina to do the sequencing, and said that fewer than five other companies bid for the job.

Jul 14, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

THE WOODLANDS, TX, UNITED STATES - Jul 14, 2014 - MolecularHealth announced today the appointment of Gabriel Bien-Willner, M.D., Ph.D., as medical director of its CLIA-certified next-generation sequencing lab in The Woodlands, Texas

Jul 14, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Jul 14, 2014 - Cloud Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a therapeutics company focused on cloud-based drug design and development, announced today the expansion of its drug design and development program

Jul 11, 2014, 10:25 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | This Wednesday, American Gut, the crowdsourced project that has now sequenced gut microbiota samples from over 3,000 volunteers, released both a round of results and its own analytical pipeline.

Jul 11, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Jul 11, 2014 - Leading sample management software provider, Titian Software (www.titian.co.uk), has announced that it will be introducing Mosaic Assay Requesting - a major new module that integrates fully with the highly regarded Mosaic sample management software suite

Jul 10, 2014, 14:55 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Today, the leadership of the Human Brain Project circulated a document responding to this Monday's open letter to the European Commission, in which neuroscientists aired concerns about the aims and decision-making processes behind the HBP.

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

Bio-IT World News Brief | The Amazon Web Services Cloud Summit kicked off with a keynote from Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer. Vogels announced CloudWatch Logs to monitor the system and application logs for trends and events over time, and highlighted the work of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research using a 2014 Bio-IT World Best of Show winner.

Jul 10, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

U-T San Diego | The rumored merger of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla and the University of Southern California is off, the Scripps board of trustees said yesterday

Jul 9, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Wall Street Journal | In an oped in the Wall Street Journal, Francis Collins gives his view of the "broad horizon" before biomedical research today.

Jul 9, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | If you’ve got an idea for a next-gen sequencing analysis pipeline—and you’re creative on camera—Appistry invites you to participate in its inaugural Appistry Pipeline Challenge. The winning group will receive $70,000 worth of hardware and software to build its pipeline.

Jul 9, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Jul 9, 2014 - The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters,  the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today released a three-part analysis on the depression drug market following the 25th anniversary of the U

Jul 8, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

New York Times | AbbVie raised its bid for Shire this morning to a cash and stock offering worth about $87.66 per share, or $51.6 billion total.

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

BOSTON, MA - Jul 8, 2014 - Boston Children's Hospital today announced the creation of two new annual awards that will be conferred at the Global Pediatric Innovation Summit + Awards, Taking on Tomorrow  (#PedInno14), taking place October 30-31, 2014, at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston

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

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, UNITED STATES - Jul 8, 2014 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Study of InSpark Technologies' Pattern Identification System Published in the Journal of Diabetes Science and TechnologyData demonstrates the utility of InSpark's advanced blood glucose pattern recognition technology