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

SOMERSET, NJ - Mar 24, 2014 - LabVantage Solutions, the leading provider of laboratory informatics solutions and services, today announced that its annual

Mar 21, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Patrick McGovern died on March 19, at Stanford Hospital, in Palo Alto, California. Among his many important achievements Pat McGovern was the Godfather of Bio-IT World.

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

PRINCETON, NJ - Mar 21, 2014 - NovoPath announced today that its NovoPath version 9.0 anatomic pathology laboratory information management software platform is compliant with the ONC 2014 Edition criteria and was certified as an EHR Module on February 14, 2014 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ACB, in accordance with the applicable eligible provider certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services

Mar 20, 2014, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | This year’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston (April 29-May 1, 2014) will once again play host to thousands of industry and academic colleagues discussing big data, security, cloud computing, trends in IT infrastructure, omics technologies, high-performance computing, data analytics and precision medicine, over three days, across 13 tracks.

Mar 20, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Broad Institute has announced that a new version of the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK), version 3.1, has been released and has been optimized for Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel AVX). The improvements account for faster variant calling, achieving three to five times overall improvement in variant discovery.

Mar 19, 2014, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | The New York Genome Center has announced a collaboration with IBM and a large collection of New York health centers to apply Watson's machine learning capabilities to cancer therapy.

Mar 19, 2014, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

UC Berkeley | The academic home of Jennifer Doudna, whose discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system in 2012 triggered a new wave of interest in genetic engineering and gene therapy, is now dedicating substantial resources to fostering further Cas9 innovation.

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

SFGate | More on Google's plans within the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. Google invited geneticists to upload genomic information to its cloud infrastructure for free.

Mar 18, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | D-Wave is selling quantum computing systems that NASA, Google, and Lockheed Martin are testing. Y

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

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Mar 18, 2014 - Linguamatics’ sales showed strong growth and exceeded ten million dollars in 2013, it was announced today - outperforming the company’s targeted growth and expected sales figures

Mar 17, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

New York Times | American science rests more on more on the shoulders of billionaire investor/philanthropists.

Mar 17, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

IRVINE, CA - Mar 17, 2014 - Zymo Research Corporation, "The Epigenetics Company",  today announced the launch of the Pico Methyl-Seq™ Library Prep and RRHP™ 5-hmC Library Prep kits for Illumina NGS-based, whole-genome analysis of 5-methlycytosine (5-mC) and genome-wide analysis of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) in DNA, respectively

Mar 17, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

KERRY, IRELAND - Mar 17, 2014 - Portable Medical Technology and The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust have today announced an enterprise agreement which will see ONCOassist, Portable Medical Technology’s revolutionary CE approved software system being deployed as the main oncology decision support system used within Clatterbridge

Mar 14, 2014, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | As biomarker-based gene panels gain acceptance as standard tools in the oncologist’s toolbox, GeneKey is going deeper, into the whole exome and transcriptome of its patients’ cancers.

Mar 14, 2014, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

The Economist | A new institute at Stanford is taking on the role of research watchdog.

Mar 13, 2014, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Galapagos NV signed a definitive agreement to sell the BioFocus and Argenta service division operations to Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (NYSE: CRL) for almost $180 million (Euro 129 million) in upfront payments and another $7 million upon achievement of revenue targets.

Mar 13, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | N-of-One has launched Variant Interpreter, an app available on Illumina’s BaseSpace Apps, Illumina’s dedicated applications store and informatics community dedicated to advancing genomic analysis. 

Mar 12, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Mendelspod | Dietrich Hauffe, SVP, life sciences at QIAGEN, spoke with Mendelspod about QIAGEN's big vision, the clinical portion of their business, and more about GeneReader.

Mar 11, 2014, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BaseSpace, Illumina's informatics app store, is an experimental model for the analysis of genetic data. Bio-IT World asks Illumina's Jordan Stockton how the multi-developer platform will fit the needs of high-volume labs that need coherent, flexible workflows.

Mar 11, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

New York Times | One of the Japanese team who published results in Nature in January claiming to have induced stem cells via an acid bath is calling for the paper's retraction.