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

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 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 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.

May 21, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

New York Times | Angelina Jolie announced drastic action this week--a preventive double mastectomy after learning that she carries a faulty copy of BRCA1. But this type of action isn't available to all women, thanks to the high costs of gene tests.

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

ReadWrite Cloud | ReadWrite tests the speed of the top file-transfer/file-storage/file-backup services: Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon Cloud, and Microsoft’s SkyDrive.

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

In the Pipeline | Derek Lowe breaks down how much various companies and sectors spend on R&D. The big spenders? Drug discovery and semiconductor companies.

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

HPC Wire | Horst Simon believes we won’t be achieving exascale computing any time soon.

May 16, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes | Bristol-Myers Squibb's approved drug, Yervoy, is being tested in combination with several experimental drugs to treat advanced melanoma.

May 16, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Wall Street Journal | The diagnostics market is its most attractive since 2007, and health care is the best performing sector of the public market right now.

May 15, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Opinionmics | If you want to talk about the cost of sequencing--how it's going down and by how much, Mick Watson has plotted it all out.

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

MendelsPod | Complete Genomics CEO, Cliff Reid, talks about the future after BGI’s buyout.

May 15, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Guest Commentary | I get to have the most fun when someone wants to collaborate on a crazy idea. But crazy ideas come with unexpected challenges, too. Our paper on how dispensing methods affect datasets was published in PLOS ONE a week ago, and we would not have predicted the polarizing effect it has had.

May 14, 2013, 06:00 AM by Michael Croft

May 14, 2013, 06:00 AM by Michael Croft

Yale News | Yale researchers scanned the genomes of 1800 individuals and found that 10% of congenital heart disease is due to de novo mutations, not found in affected newborn's parents.

May 13, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | First Base | I received an email alert over the weekend with the following title: "Kevin Davies Reflects on Emotional Goodbye." The story was about a professional soccer player in the UK leaving the club he had captained and served for ten years. Coincidentally, I'm also doing a spot of reflection, for this is my last First Base editor's column for Bio-IT World.