Dec 30, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | On Friday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services confirmed a 49% cut to CPT code 81211, which covers reimbursement for BRCA 1&2 gene tests. The change reflects an increase in the number of labs doing BRCA and is negative news for Myriad, analysts say.

Dec 27, 2013, 08:15 AM by Michael Croft

Dec 26, 2013, 10:10 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The Genome Reference Consortium has released its first complete update to the human reference genome in nearly half a decade.

Dec 24, 2013, 12:30 PM by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | GenoSpace has developed a pair of gateways to offer clinical data gathered by the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation to patients and researchers.

Dec 23, 2013, 13:50 PM by Michael Croft

Slate | A programmer weighs in on why coders prefer Courier.

Dec 23, 2013, 12:35 PM by Michael Croft

eScience News | Scripps researchers used a novel screening method to find a promising diabetes drug, and plan to expand the program to new disease areas.

Dec 20, 2013, 11:35 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have developed the first method to measure the forces exerted by cells in living tissue – using decoy cells and some cunning computer imaging.

Dec 19, 2013, 11:20 AM by Michael Croft

Cell Press | A paper by a team of Canadian researchers suggests that scientific data rarely survives as long as twenty years after publication.

Dec 18, 2013, 13:25 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | With $1.5 million in new venture financing, Curoverse is hoping to make the open source Arvados platform a serious commercial player in cloud-based bioinformatics.

Dec 18, 2013, 09:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Following his 2012 success sequencing the evasive fragile X locus, Dr. Paul Hagerman wants to make a full clinical diagnostic, and an affordable screening test, available for fragile X disorder. He thinks he’s close.

Dec 17, 2013, 14:40 PM by Michael Croft

Dec 17, 2013, 13:45 PM by Michael Croft

Dec 16, 2013, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | A new version of R to be released today will run with the Hadoop data processing platform.

Dec 13, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Lisbon welcomed attendees to the 2013 Clinical Genomics & Informatics event last week with blue skies, plenty of pasteis de nata, and excellent discourse in clinical exome sequencing, high-scale computing, RNA sequencing, and genome informatics.

Dec 12, 2013, 13:55 PM by Michael Croft

MIT News | Using the recently-developed Crispr system, researchers for the first time can perform genome-wide empirical studies of human cells, knocking down every known gene one by one.

Dec 12, 2013, 08:25 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Appistry introduces a new tool to the Cancer Genome Analysis Suite, co-developed with the Broad Institute, which will mathematically filter out cross-contamination between tumor and normal samples.

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

Bio-IT World | AllSeq offers what it believes is a unique solution to the challenges in the age of commoditized sequencing. In a transparent way, the company matches researchers with sequencing centers, but also strives to be a knowledge base for all things sequencing. CSO Shawn Baker explains.

Dec 11, 2013, 10:50 AM by Michael Croft

Dec 11, 2013, 08:40 AM by Michael Croft

Dec 10, 2013, 10:20 AM by Michael Croft

Business Wire | Foundation Medicine has released its second genetic cancer profiler for clinical use, this time targeting hematologic cancers and certain sarcomas.