Feb 5, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Philly.com | Merck has been downgraded by analysts due to struggles with Vytorin and Zocor. Q4 results announced last week raised questions about the drugs success and led to a 2.3% fall in share places.

Feb 5, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | IBM is moving some of the hardware and software technology behind Watson to the company's new Power Express servers. Companies can use the new servers to analyze warehouses of data, and to answer complex queries with high levels of confidence.

Feb 4, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

HPCwire | EMC today announced support for 4 terabyte drives for EMC Isilon's industry-leading scale-out NAS solutions.

Feb 4, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

TechCrunch | Opscode has delivered Chef 11 with the help of Facebook. Chef 11 has been rewritten with the Erlang programming language and the PostgreSQL database.

Feb 4, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | WOBURN, MASS.—Although it didn’t require digging up any local roads in the end, a small biotech company has struck a partnership in life sciences with Level 3 Communications to create a seamless and secure data link that pipes genomic data directly from its laboratory just outside Boston to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud facility in Ashburn, Northern Virginia.

Feb 1, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Whatever happened to NetApp? When Bio-IT World launched in 2002, NetApp was one of the big names in big data storage in the biotech and life sciences arena. But over the past decade, while brand names such as Isilon, EMC, BlueArc, Quantum, Panasas, DDN and many others have cashed in on the data deluge, NetApp kept at best a very low profile in the space. But there are strong signs that NetApp is turning things around.

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

Bio-IT World | To hear any CEO claim that their company has become “the premier big data analytics company focused on personalized healthcare” might raise an eyebrow or two. When the company in question is a small software firm that underwent a name change just 18 months ago, that is certainly the case.

Jan 30, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

U-T San Diego | Life Technologies is assisting in an effort to identify tens of thousands of remains found in mass graves in Libya. Life Tech is donating infrastructure, including the expertise, training, and the forensic instruments and materials to validate the workflow and process DNA samples from about 20,000 people.

Jan 30, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

PLOS Blog | PLOS and Dryad are expanding their integration to PLOS Genetics. The partnership applies data identiers (DOIs) to data "packages" associated with published articles so authors, editors, and readers can access underlying data along with the published results.

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

News Brief | A worldwide effort encompassing 102 researchers and students from 30 research groups working over 2 years tackled the computational challenges of protein function prediction. The results were published this week in Nature Methods.

Jan 29, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

InformationWorld | Oracle shared their infrastructure-as-a-service plan yesterday in a conference call with the press. The plan would boost the company's hardware usage while building its cloud subscription numbers.

Jan 29, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | This April welcomes the return of the Bio-IT World Expo in Boston (April 9-11, 2013). Over the course of three days, researchers from academia and industry will discuss themes of big data, cloud computing, trends in IT infrastructure, omics technologies, high-performance computing, data analytics and precision medicine, from the research realm to the clinical arena.

Jan 28, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The genome interpretation field gets a little more interesting this week with the news that Cypher Genomics, a software start-up co-founded by a notable quartet of Scripps Institute physicians and scientists, is launching its beta access program. The San Diego company was launched by cardiologist Eric Topol, mathematical geneticist Nicholas Schork, bioinformatician Ali Torkamani, and neuroscientist Ashley Van Zeeland, the company’s CEO. Bio-IT World editor Kevin Davies recently spoke to Van Zeeland to learn about the company’s goals and core strengths.

Jan 28, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Roundup | The Broad has again updated their GATK licenses. In October, Broad announced that commercial users of the GATK would need commercial licenses from Appistry to use GATK 2.0. The move drew complaints from the community.

Jan 25, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | A Gartner study says the Hadoop programming framework will be the dominant framework in large-scale data analytics by 2015.

Jan 25, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Briefs for January include news briefs from ERT, Flatiron Health, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Mayo Clinic, CDISC; new products from PerkinElmer; and more.

Jan 24, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World EXCLUSIVE | Three years after Jacob Allingham first began experiencing seizures that worsened into a bewildering and quickly progressing combination of symptoms, the exhausting (and exorbitant) diagnostic odyssey for Jacob and his similarly affected younger brother Dylan has come to an end.

Jan 23, 2013, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

UT San Diego | The Salk Institute in La Jolla has received $42 million gift from the New York-based Helmsley Charitable Trust that will be used to explore the genomics behind cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.

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

Bio-IT World | David Cox, a geneticist and senior vice president at Pfizer, died yesterday. Cox was involved in early efforts to sequence the human genome, served as the chief scientific officer for Perlegen, and led Pfizer's genetics research efforts in the Rinat office.

Jan 22, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft