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

Computerworld | CIOs of big companies were bemoaning the cloud's lack of flexibility at the GigsOm Structure conference yesterday.

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

Bio-IT World Roundup | Earlier this week, a Forbes commentary by John Osborn outlined what the Obama administration "really thinks" about the biopharmaceutical industry. It's not flattering.

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

UT San Diego | The debate about the cost of sequencing rises again. PeerJ, a new journal, made a marketing statement mentioning a $99 genome. The comment set off Mick Watson, a genomicist, bioinformatician, and blogger.

Jun 19, 2013, 11:50 AM by Michael Croft

The Guardian | Many in the US applauded the Supreme Court's decision to rule against Myriad and gene patents. But internationally, pundits call the decision "confusing".

Jun 19, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Jun 18, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature | A major leak of genomic data is inevitable, says Steven Brenner, in a column last week in Nature. What will the outcomes be?

Jun 17, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | China's new supercomputer, the Tianhe-2, is poised to take the top spot on the next Top500 list. The system has 3.1 million cores, with Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge chips and Xeon Phi coprocessors, and can run at 54.9 petaflops.

Jun 14, 2013, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The limits to exascale lie mainly in power and memory issues, said George Michaels, director of life sciences programs at Intel. Speaking at the Genome Informatics Alliance event last week, Michaels laid out the roadblocks to exascale as Intel sees them.

Jun 14, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Pathway Genomics wasted no time after the Supreme Court's ruling on drug patents yesterday. Yesterday the company announced that it would launch a comprehensive cancer panel next-gen sequencing panel including BRCA1 and BRCA2.

Jun 13, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | An IBM employee organization is reporting 1,300 layoffs with possibly more to come. The company announced a $1 billion restructuring last April, which probably means 6,000-8,000 layoffs.

Jun 13, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Wall Street Journal | The Supreme Court this morning ruled that human genes are not patentable.

Jun 10, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | SINGAPORE—At the recent 2013 Bio-IT World Asia conference, scientists and clinicians discussed how they could better coordinate their efforts in clinical genomics and “make genomic information usable in the clinic”.

Jun 10, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Jun 10, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

U-T San Diego | Oxford Nanopore and Illumina's partnership will end in 2016, according to Oxford's annual report. The firm end date, "adds clarity" to relationship.

Jun 7, 2013, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | SINGAPORE—At the 2013 Bio-IT World Asia conference, Professor Paul Tam described his efforts to investigate the genetic causes of rare congenital diseases, because, “any further improvement on existing medical treatment is hampered by the lack of basic understanding of how diseases arise.”

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

ReadWrite | Can Zynga's recent 18% layoffs be blamed on their data center? Maybe not exactly, but the online gaming company is an interesting case study in the value--and risks--of owning your own data center.

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

Computerworld | Red Hat has released Software Collections 1.0 in beta, to give developers support while working with newer versions of Ruby, Python, PHP and Perl.

Jun 6, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Today’s biotech grail is surely genomics in the clinic—using sequencing to inform care, treatment, and disease prevention. Implementation is easier said than done, but Partners Healthcare has been doing it since 2005. Its GeneInsight suite of applications was awarded the 2013 Bio-IT World Best Practices Editors’ Prize. 

Jun 6, 2013, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News | A consortium of 69 institutions in 13 countries plans to work to enable the free flow of information in genomic medicine by developing standards and policies to encourage data-sharing of a person’s DNA sequence combined with clinical information.

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

Bio-IT World Best Practices | In 2011, the leadership in the GlaxoSmithKline’s R&D department made a troubling realization: their scientists were having a tough time finding their data. R&D engineers set about building a new search program that could search through the company’s archived electronic lab notebooks and recognize a vast library of scientific terms. The program’s capabilities earned GSK the 2013 Best Practices Award for Knowledge Management at the Bio-IT World Expo in April.