Feb 19, 2014, 11:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Last week at AGBT 2014, GenapSys opened an early access program for researchers to test out the company's GENIUS sequencer, an instrument the size of a tablet that the company claims will be highly competitive on both speed and cost.

Feb 19, 2014, 09:15 AM by Michael Croft

ScienceNow | Kristin Lauter of Microsoft has demonstrated a new security scheme for genetic data that allows the data to be mined for information while still encrypted.

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

NEEDHAM, MA - Feb 19, 2014 - Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) today announced Chas Bountra, Ph.D., Chief Scientist & Head of the Structural Genomics Consortium/University of Oxford, will give the keynote presentation at its 14th AnnualStructure-Based Drug Design conference scheduled for May 21-22, 2014 at the Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA

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

PALO ALTO, CA  - Ayasdi (www.ayasdi.com) today announced that it has received four more major industry awards, bringing its total to nine milestone awards since the company launched in January 2013.

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

CHAPEL HILL, NC - Feb 19, 2014 - The iRODS Consortium today announced the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a leading institution in the Human Genome Project now focused on understanding the role of genetics in health and disease, as its newest member

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

ROCKVILLE, MD, US - Accelovance, a therapeutically focused clinical research organization (CRO), announced today the opening of a new office in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina

Feb 18, 2014, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Boston Business Journal | N-of-One and Appistry have partnered to more easily bring N-of-One's diagnostics plans to health care organizations.

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

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

REDWOOD CITY, CA - GenapSys Inc. unveiled the GENIUS 110™ Next Generation DNA Sequencing System at the AGBT (Advances in Genome Biology & Technology) sequencing technology conclave held on Marco Island, FL.  Dr. Hesaam Esfandyarpour, founder and ceo, presented the revolutionary GENIUS DNA sequencer with a footprint no bigger than an Apple® iPad® and that promises to make DNA sequencing widely available to individual researchers and diagnostic laboratories for the first time.

Feb 17, 2014, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The 21^st annual Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference in San Francisco featured some intense scrutiny of one area where genetic knowledge is ready to make an impact today: better defining the best patient populations for treatment during clinical trials.

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

EXETER, NH - eClipse Enterprise Solutions becomes ISO9001: 2008 certified

Feb 13, 2014, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Illumina is creating a genomics-focused accelerator at its Mission Bay R&D facility under construction in San Francisco.

Feb 13, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

LONDON, UK - Titian Software (www.titian.co.uk) completes a highly successful 2013 with the announcement that its Mosaic sample management software has been installed at four major Contract Research Organisation (CRO) sites in China.

Feb 13, 2014, 00:00 AM by Michael Croft

PHOENIX, AZ - Dr. Von Hoff is honored for advancing FDA approved treatment benefiting pancreatic cancer patients  

Feb 12, 2014, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | GenomOncology has announced several collaborations and partnerships surrounding its step-by-step workflow that takes raw data from the sequencer and translates the molecular profile of each patient’s tumor genome into an actionable clinical report. Recent partnerships include Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, and CompanionDx.

Feb 12, 2014, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | QuantuMDx is taking their handheld molecular diagnostic tool to the masses, and hoping to raise $50,000 in an Indiegogo campaign starting today. The money will support a malaria clinical trial in Africa. 

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

BOSTON, MA - Terascala, the fast data company, today announced that its Intelligent Storage Bridge (ISB), a high performance, scalable data mover, is an ideal solution for companies looking to optimize the daily movement of high performance computing (HPC) data in a variety of industries.

Feb 11, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Amazon Web Services is now hosting R and offering it to users to run on AWS using the commercial package of R--Revolution R Enterprise 7.

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

CHAPEL HILL, NC - Leading researchers in data science and genomics are recommending strategies to help genomic scientists better manage, share, analyze and archive massive research and clinical data sets in an effort to ensure that the big data explosion results in better health outcomes and faster research discoveries.

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

PHOENIX, AZ - The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has uncovered possible genetic origins of breast cancer that spreads to the brain, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.