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Mar 26, 2014, 08:25 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | With almost a year behind her, Toby Bloom, the New York Genome Center’s Deputy Science Director, Informatics, talks about the Center’s new projects, its clinical vision, and her dreams of a “be-all, end-all” multimodal database for genomic and clinical data.
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Mar 26, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Mar 26, 2014 - Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, today announced its Federal Systems Division has been selected by the U
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Mar 26, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
BISHOP'S STORTFORD, UK - Mar 26, 2014 - ~~Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, has announced that its chemical drawing App, Elemental, has reached over 100,000 downloads
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Mar 26, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - Mar 26, 2014 - Moscow startup iBinom has released the beta version of a cloud-based SaaS solution for clinical interpretation of human genome and exome data
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Mar 25, 2014, 11:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Bina Technologies announced the details of their new desktop offering, Bina Desktop, this morning, along with a rebranding of their products.
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Mar 24, 2014, 15:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Nature News | In a paper in PLOS Genetics, researchers showed how 24 gene variants could construct crude 3-D models of a face.
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Mar 24, 2014, 08:35 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Four months after the FDA barred 23andMe from reporting genetic disease risks to customers, the in-house research team insists that "the mission of the company remains on health."
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Mar 24, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
SOMERSET, NJ - Mar 24, 2014 - LabVantage Solutions, the leading provider of laboratory informatics solutions and services, today announced that its annual
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Mar 24, 2014, 00:00 AM
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Michael Croft
GLASGOW, UNITED KINGDOM - Mar 24, 2014 - GLASGOW, Scotland and
BOSTON, Mass -24 March , 2014 -
BioOutsource Ltd
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Mar 21, 2014, 08:00 AM
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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.
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Mar 21, 2014, 00:00 AM
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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
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Mar 20, 2014, 14:00 PM
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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.
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Mar 20, 2014, 07:00 AM
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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.
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Mar 19, 2014, 11:35 AM
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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.
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Mar 19, 2014, 09:00 AM
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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.
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Mar 18, 2014, 12:00 PM
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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.
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Mar 18, 2014, 08:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Computerworld | D-Wave is selling quantum computing systems that NASA, Google, and Lockheed Martin are testing. Y
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Mar 18, 2014, 00:00 AM
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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
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Mar 17, 2014, 07:00 AM
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Michael Croft
New York Times | American science rests more on more on the shoulders of billionaire investor/philanthropists.
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Mar 17, 2014, 00:00 AM
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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
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