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Australian Researchers Launch Proteome Browser
Sep 10, 2012, 08:20 AM by Michael CroftAustralian Life Sciences | As part of the Human Proteome Project, researchers from Monash University in Australia and their colleagues are developing an open-access Web interface for the proteins on chromosome 7. The proteome browser will show the quality of information available on each protein and let users drill down into the data.Full story -
ENCODE Inspires
Sep 10, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael CroftEconomist | More on the ENCODE project. The Economist likens it to Keats' reaction upon reading Homer.Full story -
Calit2 Researcher Wins Multimedia Computing Award
Sep 10, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael CroftCalit2 | A UC San Diego researcher won an award for her outstanding Ph.D. dissertation in multimedia computing, communications, and applications.Full story -
Affy's Take on Microarrays Around the World
Sep 7, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael CroftMendelsPod | Affymetrix's VP for International Markets, Chris Barbazette, talks about genomics and arrays around the world: from China and Saudi Arabia to Egypt and Venezuela.Full story -
Cliff Reid Talks Errorless Sequencing
Sep 7, 2012, 06:00 AM by Michael CroftSingularity Hub | Complete Genomics CEO Cliff Reid talks about the future of sequencing, new sequencers that will be "errorless", and the three things it will take to make whole human genome sequencing truly ubiquitous.Full story -
Big Growth, Innovation in Rare Disease Biotech
Sep 6, 2012, 10:25 AM by Michael CroftForbes | Biotech innovation is thriving at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, a company focused on finding treatments that will transform the lives of patients with ultrarare diseases.Full story -
News Briefs: EHR Certifications, Orphan Disease Market, Supercomputing Huntington's Disease
Sep 6, 2012, 10:00 AM by Michael CroftBio-IT World | News briefs: CCHIT Named Authorized Certification Body for EHRs; GNS Focuses Platform on Huntington’s Disease; Orphan Drug Market Outpaces Others; Roche Banks on Personalized Medicine; and Updated NGS Analysis Software.Full story -
Databases Fight NIH Funding Cuts
Sep 6, 2012, 09:40 AM by Michael CroftNature | Funding cuts by the US National Library of Medicine are threatening five widely used biological databases -- Protégé, BioMagResBank, Repbase, REBASE, and CASP -- as user communities rally to save them.Full story -
Birney's View of ENCODE Project Papers
Sep 5, 2012, 16:15 PM by Michael CroftEwan's Blog | Ewan Birney, the lead analysis coordinator of the massive ENCODE genome annotation project published in 30 papers this week, offers his personal perspective of the ENCODE story uncut, from beginning to end.Full story -
Encode: Gene Switches in 'Junk' DNA
Sep 5, 2012, 14:00 PM by Michael CroftNew York Times & Discover Magazine | Junk DNA is not useless after all. At least 80% of DNA that doesn't contain genes does still play a role in health: at least 4 million gene switches.Full story -
Accunet Adds NCI Data Center to its Life Science Roster
Sep 5, 2012, 06:50 AM by Michael CroftBio-IT World | Accunet's work designing a newly operational data center for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research could be a stepping stone in growing its business in the life sciences IT arena.Full story -
Obama and Romney Tackle 14 Top Science Questions
Sep 4, 2012, 17:20 PM by Michael CroftScientific American | The two presidential candidates--Barack Obama and Mitt Romney--answer 14 questions covering some of the biggest scientific and technological challenges facing the United States.Full story -
CLC bio Acquires Danish Drug Discovery Software Company Molegro
Sep 3, 2012, 08:35 AM by Michael CroftBio-IT World | The bioinformatics firm CLC bio has acquired fellow Danish company Molegro, a drug discovery software company focusing on molecular docking and protein-ligand interactions.Full story -
Why Big Data is Big: The Digital Nervous System
Sep 3, 2012, 07:50 AM by Michael CroftO'Reilly Radar | Where does all the data in "big data" come from? Web companies are the forerunners. Driven by social, mobile and cloud technology, there is an important transition taking place, leading to a data-enabled world that those companies inhabit today.Full story -
Gemini Launch From Nimbus Signals Possibilities for Flash Storage
Aug 30, 2012, 13:20 PM by Michael CroftBio-IT World | Nimbus Data Systems doesn’t have a life sciences customer on a par with its marquee clients eBay and Lockheed Martin, but chances are good that the rapidly growing performance, endurance and affordability of flash storage -- as featured in Nimbus’ new Gemini system -- will soon be winning over customersFull story -
Caltech Scientists Build Computational Model of Sea Urchin Development
Aug 29, 2012, 11:40 AM by Michael CroftFull storyCaltech | Biologists at Caltech have built the first predictive computational model for the gene network that controls the early stages of embryonic development in the popular model organism, the sea urchin, confirming that interactions among a few dozen genes suffice to tell an embryo how to start the development of different body parts.
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CAP Releases Clinical Next-Gen Sequencing Checklist
Aug 29, 2012, 01:00 AM by Michael CroftCAP Today | With more and more clinical labs turning to next-generation sequencing (NGS), the College of American Pathologists has published the United States' first standards for accrediting labs that perform NGS for clinical purposes.Full story -
Active in Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing
Aug 28, 2012, 17:40 PM by Michael CroftNew York Times | Within a few years, Amazon.com's creative destruction of both traditional book publishing and retailing may be footnotes to the company’s larger and more secretive goal: giving anyone on the planet access to an almost unimaginable amount of computing power.Full story -
John Boyce Previews the Consumer Genetics Conference
Aug 27, 2012, 13:10 PM by Michael CroftCGC | John Boyce, CEO GnuBio and the co-founder of The Consumer Genetics Conference, discusses the history behind this successful show and previews the highlights of the 2012 program, being held October 3-5 in Boston.Full story -
The Unsung Heroes Behind Those Big Genomics Breakthroughs
Aug 27, 2012, 13:00 PM by Michael CroftThe Guardian | A core facility is a slightly unusual niche for a career scientist – not an independent researcher, not a lecturer, but more like running a small-to-medium sized biotechnology company that happens to be not-for-profit.Full story