Jan 22, 2014, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The NIH’s Undiagnosed Diseases Program has turned their diploid aligner tool over to Appistry to make the pipeline “production-ready.” Appistry will host the tool in their cloud, and make the pipeline available to other users with commercial-grade support.

Jan 20, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Luke Timmerman sees a power shift in biotech and sums up last week's JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in one line: "It's the healthiest environment for innovation that I've seen in years."

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

Bio-IT World | At Aspera, it’s business as usual, Michelle Munson told Bio-IT World this morning, after the announcement that the software company’s acquisition by IBM closed. Aspera’s software development is focused on continuing to increase raw performance; improving ease of use; integration; and developing its software developer kit and APIs.

Jan 16, 2014, 09:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | A U.S. government-funded program is enabling hundreds of infants' genomes to be sequenced in medical centers around the country.

Jan 15, 2014, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Nature | Robert Green and Nita Farahany take on the FDA's treatment of 23andMe in a Nature comment today. "[R]egulatory constraints might stifle consumer genomics..." the two warned.

Jan 15, 2014, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Since QIAGEN acquired Ingenuity Systems, Ingenuity has since been trading under the name QIAGEN Redwood City, but QIAGEN has announced that the company will now be branded as such as well.

Jan 15, 2014, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Jan 15, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Matthew Herper gets Merck on the phone to discuss strategy, the FDA, and organizational changes.

Jan 14, 2014, 11:25 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | According to Illumina CEO Jay Flatley, the thousand dollar genome is finally here, with the new HiSeq X system already in production and ready to ship this March. The sequencer will be capable of delivering five whole human genomes a day at a cost of just under $1000 apiece.

Jan 14, 2014, 08:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | By partnering with Geisinger Health Systems in Pennsylvania, pharmaceutical developer Regeneron will get access to detailed electronic health records on the 100,000 volunteers it plans to sequence over the next five years.

Jan 13, 2014, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Luke Timmerman has a good roundup of the buzz and trends at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference: deals, takeovers, and new target areas in biotech.

Jan 13, 2014, 08:40 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | In the wake of another record-setting year at PLOS, Bio-IT World looks behind the curtain at the metadata that helps us search through the world’s largest open access collection of scientific research.

Jan 10, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | John Reynders has left big pharma to take charge of informatics at Moderna. His goal there is heady: creating a fully cloud-based biotech.

Jan 10, 2014, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

ReadWrite | IBM hoped that Watson's its Jeopardy-winning supercomputer would be netting the company $1 billion by 2018. Yet over the last three years, the machine only brought in $100 million total.

Jan 9, 2014, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Insight Genetics has received a new $1.5 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), their sixth contract from NCI for companion diagnostics development.

Jan 9, 2014, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | MIT researchers have developed a new algorithm that scales in a "near-linear" fashion and could help computers tackle larger, tougher problems much more efficiently.

Jan 8, 2014, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Jan 8, 2014, 10:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A Johns Hopkins team bred female mice to carry genes for two different fluorescent proteins, one on each X chromosome, resulting in entrancing color images that show patterns of X-inactivation across the body.

Jan 7, 2014, 16:00 PM by Michael Croft

GCN | The NCI plans to host the Cancer Genome Atlas in the cloud--all 2.5 petabytes of it. NCI plans to award three contracts to build "cancer clouds" for the project.

Jan 7, 2014, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Hartford Business | By the end of the year, the Jackson Laboratory's new facility will be completed and Charles Lee will lead the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine.