Apr 23, 2013, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | GlaxoSmithKline is providing as much as $465 million in startup funds for Avalon Ventures to invest in drug-discovery companies over the next three years.

Apr 23, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News that Roche is merging and laying off some 170 workers in Germany and Branford, CT, does not bode well for its efforts to reclaim some momentum in next-generation sequencing.

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

Bio-IT World | Astra Zeneca continues to build up its R&D potential. The company announced its plans to strengthen its relationship with the Stockholm-based Karolinska Institute (KI), one of Europe's largest and most prestigious medical universities.

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

New York Times | Major medical centers are gearing up for a push for precision medicine. Skeptics would claim it's all a bit premature. But Robert C. Green at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston counters, "What was there to look up on the Internet when the first person got a personal computer? Very little.”

Apr 22, 2013, 06:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Few have spent as much time gazing upon the Reference as Deanna Church at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Bio-IT World editor Kevin Davies skyped with Church to hear her personal assessment of the current state of the Reference, the degree of progress in the past decade and priorities for the future.

Apr 19, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

PharmaTimes | A new report from Burrill, says that Big Biotech has outpaced Big Pharma in terms of growth of sales, income, investment in R&D and market cap during the past three years.

Apr 18, 2013, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BOSTON—As the opening keynote at the 2013 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, Andrew Hopkins started with the hard questions: Where are the flying cars?

Apr 18, 2013, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Cycle Computing has announced the release of DataManager, a new solution that schedules and manages the secure transfer and storage of data sets needed for large scale computations from lower cost cloud storage solutions, such as Amazon Glacier.

Apr 18, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

ComputerWorld | Software licenses for the Cloud present their own, unique challenges. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) present the most problems because the customer has shared control over what is run in the cloud environment.

Apr 18, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

ReadWrite | The cloud is officially boring, analysts say. Based on Google search data, the next big thing? Big data.

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

FastCompany | Kathi Giusti and John Quackenbush discuss the number-one problem in pharma--data kept within the walls of the academic centers and within companies--and what to do about it.

Apr 16, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BOSTON–In two compelling presentations at the Bio-IT World Conference* last week, Atul Butte and Steven Salzberg provided formidable advocacy for the virtues of open data and open science.

Apr 16, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Asian Scientist | If BGI had a representative mascot, what would it be? The kung fu panda, naturally. Why? "It is humble, nice, good-looking, cute, soft, but knows kung fu," Wang Jun explains.

Apr 15, 2013, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

eWeek | Last week IBM announced a $1 billion investment in flash-based storage for servers, storage systems, and middleware. Big Blue also announced a line of products called FlashSystem and 12 new Centers of Competency around flash storage.

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

HPC Wire | The federal R&D budget numbers did not save room for exascale computing. Many had expected the exascale goal to be quietly shelved in light of the sequester, but there were some compute budget gains.

Apr 15, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Thermo Fisher Scientific agreed this morning to buy Life Technologies in a $13.6 billion deal or $76/share. It's the largest acquisition ever for Thermo Fisher.

Apr 12, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The 2013 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo closed yesterday--an energetic three days as members from the life sciences and biotech industries convened in Boston. With over 125 exhibitors and 12 tracks, the event is fully-packed. Here are some highlights from a very busy Expo floor.

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

Bio-IT World | Guest Commentary | Some three decades ago, a distinguished physiologist suggested that we needed new technologies to record many neurons in parallel. It did not take much imagination to realize that what would be illuminatory with many neurons would be revelatory for the whole brain. This month, President Obama announced the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative, and proponents of the idea hope it will be just that.

Apr 10, 2013, 19:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World  | The Bio-IT World Best of Show Awards were announced tonight at the 2013 Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston. New products were recognized from ePharmaSolutions, Bright Computing, Seven Bridges Genomics, and Biofortis.

Apr 10, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World announced the winners of its ninth Best Practices Awards competition this morning in a plenary session at the 2013 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston. Grand prize winners were named in four life sciences categories highlighting best practices in genomics, cloud computing, big data in disease research, and big pharma data management. In addition, a Judges’ Prize and Editors’ Choice Award were given.