Nov 11, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Nature Biotechnology | Researchers at the Bioengineering Department of the University of California, San Diego, have made progress in bringing single-cell genome sequencing to a level of precision on par with multi-cell approaches.

Nov 11, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature Biotechnology | Nick Loman and Mick Watson give advice on becoming a computational biologist. Among their tips: set traps for your own scripts and other people's.

Nov 11, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

In the Pipeline | PLOSOne has posted a new paper tracking drug development over the past 20 years looking at patents and publications. The data shows--among other things--a peak in patents in 2008, and since then a decline.

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

Nov 8, 2013, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | A team of bioinformatics experts at UC Santa Cruz made the most accurate predictions in a competitive challenge to identify signaling networks in breast cancer cells. The results of the HPN-DREAM breast cancer network inference challenge were announced today in Toronto.

Nov 8, 2013, 12:30 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | One year after the release of DNASTAR’s first cloud application, the desktop genome analysis company has developed cloud capabilities for its enterprise software suite, and now a commercial presence inside BaseSpace.

Nov 8, 2013, 09:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | The results of the second sbv IMPROVER challenge have delivered a surprising level of validation for rodent models of genetic pathways in human cells.

Nov 8, 2013, 08:15 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | November and December are shaping up to be big months for the next-generation sequencing company, as four new products to speed up and refine the sequencing workflow are scheduled for early release in the coming weeks.

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

Independent | Crispr, the unwieldy acronym for palindromic repeats in DNA, was thought to be junk DNA for years. Turns out, that is definitely not the case.

Nov 6, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | EMC has sued Pure Storage for colluding with former employees to collect EMC information and trade secrets.

Nov 6, 2013, 09:45 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | A number of open source informatics tools have grown popular with genetic researchers performing specific workflows. Now, Biodatomics thinks the market is ready to scale up to an open source end-to-end genomic analysis platform.

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

Nature Biotechnology | To RNAseq and ChIPseq, add HaploSeq: a new sequencing method that not only identifies variants in an individual's genome, but also links them together into haplotypes.

Nov 4, 2013, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The past few weeks tranSMART has launched its membership program and announced a joint cloud computing initiative with BT. It’s a busy season for non-profit.

Nov 1, 2013, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina’s verifi prenatal test will be offered to pregnant women in California through the state’s Prenatal Screening Program. Beginning today, all pregnant women in California at increased risk of carrying a fetus with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) or trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome), or who have had an ultrasound showing a large nuchal translucency, will have the option of receiving a non-invasive prenatal test.

Nov 1, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Oak Ridge Today | The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, (UT) has received a grant from Intel to develop computer codes to enable personalized medicine. The funding will open an Intel Parallel Computing Center at the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, or JICS, at UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Nov 1, 2013, 08:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | With the rapid expansion of BaseSpace over the past two years, Illumina has been betting on the cloud as a future hub of cutting-edge genetic research. Now, new moves to encourage app developers to move into BaseSpace, along with the acquisition of NextBio, are expanding the range and power of the company's cloud-based analytics.

Oct 31, 2013, 10:50 AM by Michael Croft

MassGenomics | Dan Koboldt, who attended ASHG last week to discuss his work identifying pathogenic variants in families, shares his impressions from the meeting.

Oct 31, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Opiniomics Blog | Mick Watson is reporting on ICG8 from Shenzhen when he has the internet access, and he says Genia presented their single molecule sequencer. The instrument will cost less than $1000 and will be able to sequence human genomes for less than $100.

Oct 30, 2013, 08:30 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The International Consortium for Human Phenotype Terminologies has announced an agreement between the major players in rare genetic disease research to use a fixed set of terms for human phenotypes, allowing computers to make rapid comparisons of patients and disease presentations across far-flung databases.

Oct 29, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The 2014 Bio-IT World Best Practices competition has released its call for entries. The advanced deadline for entry is February 10, 2014; the early deadline is December 16, 2013.