Jun 24, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | In another look at the Hi-C process for sorting out disparate bits of DNA, Jonathan Eisen’s lab at UC Davis tweaks the Markov Cluster Algorithm to take on metagenomics. The results need further attention, but could be extremely useful for joining plasmids and chromosomes from the same species.

Jun 24, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

, UK - Jun 24, 2014 - Packaging Coordinators Inc. (PCI) is pleased to welcome Robbie Stewart to its European business development team

Jun 23, 2014, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The ANZAC Research Institute in Sydney, Australia, has used NextCODE Health's Clinical Sequence Analyzer and Sequence Miner tools to ID novel sequence variants behind X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome (CMTX).

Jun 20, 2014, 12:45 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Today, 23andMe's new chief legal and regulatory officer, Kathy Hibbs, announced that the company has submitted a 510(k) to the FDA, seeking approval to tell customers whether they carry mutations for the rare disease Bloom syndrome. The move signals a cooperative, incremental approach to restoring the 23andMe health reports that the FDA shut down last November.

Jun 19, 2014, 10:05 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | At the annual Pacific Biosciences user group meeting in Baltimore, geneticists and bioinformaticians gathered this week to discuss how long-read sequencing is opening up previously intractable problems. Rapid de novo assembly of whole genomes was a major topic of conversation, while users unveiled new computational tools that greatly speed up long-read assemblies, and PacBio announced plans for updated chemistry and high-throughput HLA typing.

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

SAN DIEGO, CA, US - Jun 19, 2014 - At the Drug Information Association’s (DIA) 50th Annual Meeting, Veeva Systems released the results of the Veeva 2014 Paperless TMF Survey: An Industry Benchmark, the largest TMF survey to date

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

BOSTON, MA - Jun 19, 2014 - Today, Linguamatics launches I2E Semantic Enrichment to provide increased return on investment in enterprise search systems and radically improve speed to insight

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

LINCOLN, NE - Jun 19, 2014 - TELCOR's QML version 2.3 point of care software solution has achieved ONC HIT 2014 Edition Modular Inpatient and Modular Ambulatory EHR Certification, which designates that the software is capable of supporting eligible providers and hospitals with meeting the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

Jun 18, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Alabama.com | The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine are expanding and formalizing their relationship as the UAB-HudsonAlpha Center for Genomic Medicine

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

SAN MATEO, CA - Jun 18, 2014 - MAVERIX ADDS SIGNIFICANT ENHANCEMENTS TOGENOMIC ANALYSIS PLATFORMFOR RNA-SEQ RESEARCHEnhanced design allows comparison of side-by-side resultsfrom HTSeq/DESeq and CufflinksMaverix Biomics Inc

Jun 17, 2014, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

San Diego Union-Tribune | The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla and the University of Southern California are reportedly considering a merger or acquisition, under which Scripps would be acquired by USC.

Jun 16, 2014, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Brief | Ten days after Pathway Genomics announced its new BRCATrue test and its plan to donate $10 million worth of tests in its one for one program, Myriad Genetics filed a patent infringement suit against the company. While calling the suit "unwarranted", Jim Plante, Pathway Genomics' founder and CEO, also acknowledged that the lawsuit was "not unexpected."

Jun 13, 2014, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Matthew Herper examines the market for generic biotech therapies, which have sometimes been seen as more resistant to generic competition than chemically manufactured drugs.

Jun 13, 2014, 08:20 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including Myriad Genetics donating cancer variants to PROMPT study, and the launch of MolecularHealth's cancer genotyping service.

Jun 12, 2014, 13:40 PM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | With over $400 million on hand, Cambridge-based Moderna Therapeutics is revisiting its role in bringing mRNA-based therapies to market.

Jun 12, 2014, 12:30 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | NextCODE Health, the spin-off from deCODE genetics that launched last October, has continued to release new software tools based on deCODE's former diagnostic services. Its latest is a whole genome-scale tumor analyzer.

Jun 12, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

WARSAW, POLAND - Jun 12, 2014 - Warsaw – 12 June 2014 – Europe was the first region worldwide to introduce a clear regulatory pathway for biosimilar medicines

Jun 12, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Jun 12, 2014 - TeraDiscoveries, Inc., a bio-therapeutics company focused on cloud-based drug design and development, announced today that effective immediately, it has changed its corporate name to Cloud Pharmaceuticals, Inc

Jun 12, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

TORONTO, ON, CANADA - Jun 12, 2014 - Claron Technology, a leading medical imaging solution provider, was ranked today as No. 305 on the Canadian Business and PROFIT 26th annual PROFIT 500, the definitive ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies

Jun 11, 2014, 08:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | This morning, a trio of U.K. researchers released what may be the first publicly available read from an Oxford Nanopore MinION Sequencer.