Nov 14, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | At the Amazon Web Services Reinvent conference, Andy Jassy spared nothing in his assessment of private clouds, saying they offer "none of the benefits" of public cloud offerings.

Nov 14, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | American philanthropists and entrepreneurs Eli and Edythe Broad are investing an additional $100 million into the Broad Institute to launch a new decade of transformative work to harness recent biomedical discoveries to benefit patients.

Nov 13, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Myriad Genetics got their fare share of press this summer when the Supreme Court ruled that Myriad’s gene patents were invalid. But in the past three months, the company has released three diagnostic and prognostic tests. Patent or no patent, they’ve been busy.

Nov 12, 2013, 12:15 PM by Michael Croft

ScienceWorksForU.S. | A survey of American research universities, conducted by a trio of higher education organizations, attempts to quantify where cuts to scientific research due to the sequester are being directed.

Nov 12, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Nov 12, 2013, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News briefs from around the industry, including new life science partnerships from Thomson Reuters, personalized diabetes care software at the UNC School of Medicine and SAS, and

Nov 12, 2013, 08:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A paper published today in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that many irreproducible findings in the scientific literature may be the result of a too-lenient standard for establishing statistical significance.

Nov 11, 2013, 20:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina today announced that Francis deSouza will take on the role of President, reporting to CEO Jay Flatley. deSouza will lead Illumina's business units and the core functions responsible for envisioning, developing and producing the company’s products. He will join the team in December.

Nov 11, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Nature Biotechnology | Researchers at the Bioengineering Department of the University of California, San Diego, have made progress in bringing single-cell genome sequencing to a level of precision on par with multi-cell approaches.

Nov 11, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

In the Pipeline | PLOSOne has posted a new paper tracking drug development over the past 20 years looking at patents and publications. The data shows--among other things--a peak in patents in 2008, and since then a decline.

Nov 11, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature Biotechnology | Nick Loman and Mick Watson give advice on becoming a computational biologist. Among their tips: set traps for your own scripts and other people's.

Nov 11, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nov 8, 2013, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A team of bioinformatics experts at UC Santa Cruz made the most accurate predictions in a competitive challenge to identify signaling networks in breast cancer cells. The results of the HPN-DREAM breast cancer network inference challenge were announced today in Toronto.

Nov 8, 2013, 12:30 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | One year after the release of DNASTAR’s first cloud application, the desktop genome analysis company has developed cloud capabilities for its enterprise software suite, and now a commercial presence inside BaseSpace.

Nov 8, 2013, 09:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The results of the second sbv IMPROVER challenge have delivered a surprising level of validation for rodent models of genetic pathways in human cells.

Nov 8, 2013, 08:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | November and December are shaping up to be big months for the next-generation sequencing company, as four new products to speed up and refine the sequencing workflow are scheduled for early release in the coming weeks.

Nov 7, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Independent | Crispr, the unwieldy acronym for palindromic repeats in DNA, was thought to be junk DNA for years. Turns out, that is definitely not the case.

Nov 6, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | EMC has sued Pure Storage for colluding with former employees to collect EMC information and trade secrets.

Nov 6, 2013, 09:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | A number of open source informatics tools have grown popular with genetic researchers performing specific workflows. Now, Biodatomics thinks the market is ready to scale up to an open source end-to-end genomic analysis platform.

Nov 5, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature Biotechnology | To RNAseq and ChIPseq, add HaploSeq: a new sequencing method that not only identifies variants in an individual's genome, but also links them together into haplotypes.