Jun 27, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Chemical & Engineering News | In a "found DNA" project, Heather Dewey-Hagborg is sequencing the DNA she finds around her--fallen strands of hair, discarded chewing gum--and using it to create images, and then sculptures of the owners' faces.

Jun 26, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

NASDAQ | Jonathan Rothberg has resigned from Life Technologies, amid Life's attempted $13.6 billion merger with Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Jun 26, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News | Hugh Rienhoff's quest seems to be ending. For the past ten years, Rienhoff has been scouring the genome of his daughter, Bea. He's had candidates before, but now he's identified a mutation that isn't connected to any other disease and appears to cause Bea's symptoms.

Jun 26, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Slate | In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling on gene patents, patients are banding together to share the data that Myriad Genetics has collected over the years.

Jun 25, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

InformationWeek | In a bid for the CIA's Cloud business, Amazon wins--but not with the lowest price. IBM's bid came in lower than Amazon, but the CIA still chose AWS.

Jun 24, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Oracle's Larry Ellison is a step ahead of the game. Oracle hasn't released it's 12c database yet, but speaking on a quarterly earnings call last week, Ellison plugged database 12.1c as the most direct competitor to SAP's HANA in-memory platform

Jun 21, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News briefs and products from around the industry, including a clinical testing agreement in China, donated ALS data, an NGS developer program, a new high performance storage solution, and more.

Jun 20, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | CIOs of big companies were bemoaning the cloud's lack of flexibility at the GigsOm Structure conference yesterday.

Jun 20, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Roundup | Earlier this week, a Forbes commentary by John Osborn outlined what the Obama administration "really thinks" about the biopharmaceutical industry. It's not flattering.

Jun 20, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

UT San Diego | The debate about the cost of sequencing rises again. PeerJ, a new journal, made a marketing statement mentioning a $99 genome. The comment set off Mick Watson, a genomicist, bioinformatician, and blogger.

Jun 19, 2013, 11:50 AM by Michael Croft

The Guardian | Many in the US applauded the Supreme Court's decision to rule against Myriad and gene patents. But internationally, pundits call the decision "confusing".

Jun 19, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Jun 18, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature | A major leak of genomic data is inevitable, says Steven Brenner, in a column last week in Nature. What will the outcomes be?

Jun 17, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | China's new supercomputer, the Tianhe-2, is poised to take the top spot on the next Top500 list. The system has 3.1 million cores, with Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge chips and Xeon Phi coprocessors, and can run at 54.9 petaflops.

Jun 14, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The limits to exascale lie mainly in power and memory issues, said George Michaels, director of life sciences programs at Intel. Speaking at the Genome Informatics Alliance event last week, Michaels laid out the roadblocks to exascale as Intel sees them.

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

Bio-IT World News Brief | Pathway Genomics wasted no time after the Supreme Court's ruling on drug patents yesterday. Yesterday the company announced that it would launch a comprehensive cancer panel next-gen sequencing panel including BRCA1 and BRCA2.

Jun 13, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Wall Street Journal | The Supreme Court this morning ruled that human genes are not patentable.

Jun 13, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | An IBM employee organization is reporting 1,300 layoffs with possibly more to come. The company announced a $1 billion restructuring last April, which probably means 6,000-8,000 layoffs.

Jun 10, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | SINGAPORE—At the recent 2013 Bio-IT World Asia conference, scientists and clinicians discussed how they could better coordinate their efforts in clinical genomics and “make genomic information usable in the clinic”.

Jun 10, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft