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

U-T San Diego | Oxford Nanopore and Illumina's partnership will end in 2016, according to Oxford's annual report. The firm end date, "adds clarity" to relationship.

Jun 7, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | SINGAPORE—At the 2013 Bio-IT World Asia conference, Professor Paul Tam described his efforts to investigate the genetic causes of rare congenital diseases, because, “any further improvement on existing medical treatment is hampered by the lack of basic understanding of how diseases arise.”

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

Computerworld | Red Hat has released Software Collections 1.0 in beta, to give developers support while working with newer versions of Ruby, Python, PHP and Perl.

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

ReadWrite | Can Zynga's recent 18% layoffs be blamed on their data center? Maybe not exactly, but the online gaming company is an interesting case study in the value--and risks--of owning your own data center.

Jun 6, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Today’s biotech grail is surely genomics in the clinic—using sequencing to inform care, treatment, and disease prevention. Implementation is easier said than done, but Partners Healthcare has been doing it since 2005. Its GeneInsight suite of applications was awarded the 2013 Bio-IT World Best Practices Editors’ Prize. 

Jun 6, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News | A consortium of 69 institutions in 13 countries plans to work to enable the free flow of information in genomic medicine by developing standards and policies to encourage data-sharing of a person’s DNA sequence combined with clinical information.

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

Bio-IT World Best Practices | In 2011, the leadership in the GlaxoSmithKline’s R&D department made a troubling realization: their scientists were having a tough time finding their data. R&D engineers set about building a new search program that could search through the company’s archived electronic lab notebooks and recognize a vast library of scientific terms. The program’s capabilities earned GSK the 2013 Best Practices Award for Knowledge Management at the Bio-IT World Expo in April.

Jun 4, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Dell announced today the Dell Active Infrastructure for HPC Life Sciences, an infrastructure system optimized for genomic research to begin shipping in July.

Jun 4, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Not only do we have a lot of data, we have many copies of the same data. Created for backup, or research, or sharing, all that duplication is getting out of hand, analysts say.

Jun 4, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Microsoft CIO Tony Scott has left the company. The news was circulating thanks to Scott's LinkedIn profile and the company's senior leader webpage before Microsoft released an announcement.

Jun 3, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | SINGAPORE—Jumping on the public cloud bandwagon could go a long way toward alleviating data storage, retrieval and archival woes currently experienced by the research industry, said Chris Dagdigian, founding partner and director of technology, The BioTeam. Dagdigian gave his annual “Trends from the Trenches” keynote address at Bio-IT World Asia last week in Singapore.

May 31, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | SINGAPORE—Sir David Lane kicked off the 2013 Bio-IT World Asia conference this week by describing an alternative paradigm for drug discovery and development: using stapled peptides to target protein-protein interactions.

May 30, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Amazon Web Services is integrating its login process with Amazon.com, Facebook and Google. Amazon calls the concept web identity federation, and released a new AWS Security Token Service (STS) API to simplify the development process.

May 29, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Today researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign have announced the discovery of the chemical structure of the capsid for the HIV virus. The discovery was facilitated by the Blue Waters supercomputer system at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and is published this week in Nature.

May 28, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

New York Times Dealbook | Valeant Pharmaceuticals International of Canada has purchased Bausch & Lomb, the eye care company, for about $8.7 billion.

May 28, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Guest Commentary | Transform your business before it’s transformed for you. These words convey a hard truth about modern business—external forces are rapidly conspiring to unravel even the best-laid plans. From geopolitical and economic macro trends to global threats to health and the environment, business change is now maddeningly unpredictable and capricious. Absent a proactive plan to address these new business realities, some businesses are in for challenging futures.

May 23, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | STANFORD, CA—The challenge in healthcare is to change what is—and what isn’t—a billable question, said 23andMe founder Ann Wojcicki, giving the opening keynote yesterday at the Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford University. And they key will be generating so much data that we’re forced to figure it out.

May 23, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

InformationWeek | PatientsLikeMe has launched its Open Research Exchange and issued a call for patients, an initiative funded by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant announced earlier this year.

May 23, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | An survey of 30 countries finds the US to be the least risky place to open a data center, followed by the UK, Germany and Sweden. The most risky spots were Indonesia, India, and Brazil.

May 22, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | With the plummeting cost of next-generation sequencing (NGS) expanding the range of clinical genomics tests being offered by diagnostics companies and medical centers, a looming problem lies in reimbursement.