May 1, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World announced the winners of its tenth annual Best Practices Awards competition yesterday morning in a plenary session at the 2014 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston.

Apr 30, 2014, 05:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo started yesterday evening with a fantastic opening keynote address from John Quackenbush, CEO of GenoSpace and professor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a welcoming reception on a packed Expo Hall floor. Over 2,800 life sciences, pharmaceutical, clinical, healthcare, and IT professionals will join us this week for three days of programming across 13 tracks. Here’s a brief summary of some of the news and announcements made thus far. 

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

BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES - Apr 29, 2014 -   Terascala, the fast data company, today announced that Jamie Coffin, former worldwide vice president and general manager for Dell Healthcare and Life Science division, has joined Terascala's Board of Directors

Apr 28, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including new prognostics for cancer care, and a bioinformatics suite for NGS data in cancer research.

Apr 28, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BISHOPS STORTFORD, UK - Apr 28, 2014 - Dotmatics, a leading provider of informatics solutions for pharma, biotech, chemical, agrochemical and academic industries, announced that Abide Therapeutics have selected Dotmatics' informatics solutions to improve the data management and capabilities of their technology platform

Apr 28, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, N.Y. – April 28, 2014 – Medidata (NASDAQ: MDSO), the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, today announced that Sanofi, one of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies, has increased its adoption of the Medidata Clinical Cloud™ as part of a company-wide initiative to achieve cutting-edge productivity across its global R&D organization.

Apr 28, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BOULDER, CO, UNITED STATES - Apr 28, 2014 - Array BioPharma Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRY) today announced that as part of its continued evolution toward late-stage development and commercialization, Charles M

Apr 25, 2014, 11:25 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Though Ceres never expected to become a software provider, the plant engineering company has found itself with a platform for viewing and exploring genetic data that it believes will vastly outperform the industry standard.

Apr 23, 2014, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | An excellent Nature Perspectives piece, published today, takes on the issues surrounding causality. The paper represents the conclusions of a working group of experts in genomic research, analysis and clinical diagnostic sequencing convened by the US National Human Genome Research Institute.

Apr 23, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Apr 23, 2014 - Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, describes four benefits of using a non-regional monitoring strategy for clinical trials versus a traditional regional model

Apr 23, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BISHOP'S STORTFORD, UK - Apr 23, 2014 - ~~Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, will be exhibiting at booth #237 of the annual Bio-IT World Conference & Exposition 2014 on April 29th – May 1st

Apr 22, 2014, 10:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | This morning, Los Altos-based startup BaseHealth emerged from stealth mode to announce the launch of Genophen, a preventive medicine platform that unites clinical and genetic data to help patients track and manage their risk of developing common chronic diseases.

Apr 22, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | Talks between Pfizer and AstraZeneca fizzled, but the possibility foretells future big deals, analysts say.

Apr 22, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

REuters | Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline announced this morning that they two big pharma are trading over $20 billion worth of assets in an attempt to strengthen their best businesses

Apr 22, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Apr 22, 2014 - Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced it will showcase the integration of Full story

Apr 22, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Apr 22, 2014 - Regulatory and Clinical Research Institute, Inc. (RCRI) announced that David France has joined RCRI in the role of Principal Advisor

Apr 22, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Apr 22, 2014 - Linguamatics is today celebrating being named as a winner of the Queen's Award for Enterprise - the UK's highest accolade for business success

Apr 22, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

BETHESDA, MD - Apr 22, 2014 - BioDatomics™, a supplier of bioinformatics analysis software and services that improve genomic research productivity, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a capital investment from the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development's (MDBED) Maryland Venture Fund (MVF)

Apr 22, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

, UK - Apr 22, 2014 - Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline have agreed to exchange assets and combine their consumer healthcare units

Apr 21, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Of sequencing bottlenecks, the most lamented is the analysis pipeline. Edico Genome is developing the DRAGEN Bio-IT Processor, the world’s first Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) bioinformatics ASIC to speed and smooth that process.