Jul 18, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

In the Pipeline | Derek Lowe keeps tabs on the China-GSK story. Four GSK officials have been arrested, a fifth has been ordered to stay in the country. The official charges are bribery.

Jul 17, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

San Francisco Business Times | Sangamo BioSciences has used zinc finger technology to silence the extra chromosome in induced pluripotent stem cells exhibiting Down's Syndrome.

Jul 17, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Medical Xpress | The predictive value of amyloid plaque has been the subject of some debate in Alzheimer’s disease research. Now researchers have found that the location of amyloid plaque accumulations may play a role.

Jul 17, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | On Monday, researchers released the largest database of cancer-related genetic variations—the genomes of the 60 cancer cell lines represented by the NCI-60 list. The project was published online in Cancer Research (2013;73:4372-4382. Published OnlineFirst July 15, 2013).

Jul 16, 2013, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Oracle has announced a new version of its Exalytics appliance for high-speed data analysis. The SAP HANA competitor has 2TB of RAM, 2.4TB of flash storage and 5.4TB of traditional disk storage.

Jul 15, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Chemical & Engineering News | Sequencing--where we've been and where we are going. Next generation sequencing has made progress, but the road ahead is still littered with challenges: payments, disclosure, and how sequencing fits in diagnostics.

Jul 15, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Texas-based bioinformatics startup Arpeggi has announced the addition of data from the Genome in a Bottle Consortium to its online Genome Comparison & Analytical Testing (GCAT) toolkit. GCAT is a freely available cloud-based platform for evaluating the accuracy of next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis pipelines that provides performance reports which users can share and discuss with the community.

Jul 15, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

O'Reilly Radar | George Church weighs in on genomics, gene patents, medicine, and the spaceship in our backyard.

Jul 11, 2013, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Creating a computer program that accurately tells pharmaceutical companies which candidate drugs they should spend millions of dollars developing may seem like a daunting task, but Schrodinger, a software company that specializes in life science applications, hopes to do just that.

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

Xconomy | Several of the recent and upcoming biotech IPOs have one thing in common: a partnership with Celgene. In their work with start ups a few Celgene habits stand out: a hands off approach, high-risk/high-reward picks, and flexibility in the deal.

Jul 10, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | A decade-long project has produced a digital brain with 125,000 times the resolution of previous models. The work was published last month in Science and could offer new ways for brain research is conducted, tracked, and shared.

Jul 9, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | The Obama administration says that its Data.gov open source initiative, started in 2009, is creating  jobs and spawning start-ups, including many health-IT companies.

Jul 8, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

SFARI | Several clinics--both academic and companies--are routinely doing exome sequencing for less than $10,000. Last week Partners Healthcare announced whole-genome sequencing for $9,000 each

Jul 8, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

The Guardian | An IVF clinic in New Jersey that has been using Ion Torrent sequencing to screen embryos for genetic abnormalities has announce the first birth following the screening process.

Jul 8, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Guardian | The health secretary of the UK announced the launch of Genomics England last week. The new government organization will "oversee the creation of a genomic revolution in healthcare."

Jul 8, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The challenges associated with CPT codes and new genomic diagnostics are well known to researchers, and the American Medical Association and McKesson say they are taking steps to simplify the process. Earlier this year, the American Medical Association and McKesson launched an agreement they hope will “bring transparency and clarity” to the CPT challenges: they are taking a series of McKesson codes—Z-Code Identifiers—and mapping the Z-Codes to existing CPT codes.

Jul 2, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Brief | AstraZeneca has licensed Optibrium’s StarDrop software globally for its researchers. The license covers StarDrop and the ADME-QSAR and Auto-Modeller modules.

Jul 1, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

All Things D | CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics and the lab that invented the internet 20 years ago, is venturing into the Cloud. The lab has chosen Rackspace to build a hybrid cloud environment.

Jul 1, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Over the weekend, Onyx Pharmaceuticals stirred up speculation over a buyout. Amgen reportedly offered $120/share, and Onyx responded by issuing a call for other suitors.

Jul 1, 2013, 06:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Galaxy, the well-loved open source tool for data-intensive biomedical research, is getting some new gear. At the Galaxy User Group meeting in Oslo, Norway, BioTeam announced a new hardware appliance specifically for Galaxy:  the SlipStream Appliance: Galaxy Edition. According to the agreement with the Galaxy Project, for the next two years BioTeam will be the exclusive appliance vendor for Galaxy.