May 12, 2014, 07:55 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Today, IBM released a commercial version of the "Elastic Storage" memory architecture it has used internally for its Watson supercomputing program.

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

BISHOPS STORTFORD, UK - May 12, 2014 - Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services to the academic, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, reported today that its premium data analysis and visualisation software, Vortex, is being used by university research groups in Thailand to further their scientific research in diverse fields

May 9, 2014, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg, "genome hacker" Yaniv Erlich, and public data advocate Isaac Kohane joined each other onstage on the last day of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo to discuss the perils and the promise of publicly available genetic data.

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

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - May 9, 2014 - Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), is showcasing its 30-year history of success in drug development strategies and services at the Outsourcing in Clinical Trials (OCT) East Coast conference May 13-14 in Philadelphia

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

Bio-IT World News Brief | This morning, DNA Electronics announced a significant expansion of its internal R&D, doubling its product development staff from 30 to 60 scientists. The company also brought on Steve Allen to serve as COO.

May 8, 2014, 09:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A paper by a team of researchers from the Scripps Institute, published yesterday in Nature, describes the first stable, self-replicating organism whose DNA contains bases other than the well-known A, G, C and T.

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

PHILADELPHIA, PA - May 8, 2014 - The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, honored Amplimmune, Inc

May 7, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Stephen Friend, the president of Sage Bionetworks, gave the keynote presentation at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Wednesday morning on enhancing communication within the biomedical research community. Friend’s communication concerns span every level of research, from creating protein pathway models, to analyzing patient data. 

May 5, 2014, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The fifth annual Genomes Environments Traits (GET) Conference convened in Cambridge last week, uniting dozens of individuals who have undergone whole genome sequencing to discuss where their data is leading researchers.

May 2, 2014, 11:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Best of Show awards presented at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo this week recognized significant advances in life sciences IT. New products from Ayasdi, GenoSpace, and Cycle Computing took home the top prizes at this year's competition.

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

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 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 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

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