• Calit2 Researcher Wins Multimedia Computing Award

    Sep 10, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Calit2 | A UC San Diego researcher won an award for her outstanding Ph.D. dissertation in multimedia computing, communications, and applications. 
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  • Affy's Take on Microarrays Around the World

    Sep 7, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft
    MendelsPod | 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.
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  • Cliff Reid Talks Errorless Sequencing

    Sep 7, 2012, 06:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Singularity 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.
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  • Big Growth, Innovation in Rare Disease Biotech

    Sep 6, 2012, 10:25 AM by Michael Croft
    Forbes | Biotech innovation is thriving at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, a company focused on finding treatments that will transform the lives of patients with ultrarare diseases.
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  • News Briefs: EHR Certifications, Orphan Disease Market, Supercomputing Huntington's Disease

    Sep 6, 2012, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-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.
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  • Databases Fight NIH Funding Cuts

    Sep 6, 2012, 09:40 AM by Michael Croft
    Nature | 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. 
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  • Birney's View of ENCODE Project Papers

    Sep 5, 2012, 16:15 PM by Michael Croft
    Ewan'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.
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  • Encode: Gene Switches in 'Junk' DNA

    Sep 5, 2012, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft
    New 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. 
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  • Accunet Adds NCI Data Center to its Life Science Roster

    Sep 5, 2012, 06:50 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-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.
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  • Obama and Romney Tackle 14 Top Science Questions

    Sep 4, 2012, 17:20 PM by Michael Croft
    Scientific 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.
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  • CLC bio Acquires Danish Drug Discovery Software Company Molegro

    Sep 3, 2012, 08:35 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-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. 
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  • Why Big Data is Big: The Digital Nervous System

    Sep 3, 2012, 07:50 AM by Michael Croft
    O'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. 
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  • Gemini Launch From Nimbus Signals Possibilities for Flash Storage

    Aug 30, 2012, 13:20 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-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 customers
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  • Caltech Scientists Build Computational Model of Sea Urchin Development

    Aug 29, 2012, 11:40 AM by Michael Croft

    Caltech | 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 Croft
    CAP 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.
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  • Active in Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing

    Aug 28, 2012, 17:40 PM by Michael Croft
    New 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.  
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  • John Boyce Previews the Consumer Genetics Conference

    Aug 27, 2012, 13:10 PM by Michael Croft
    CGC | 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. 
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  • The Unsung Heroes Behind Those Big Genomics Breakthroughs

    Aug 27, 2012, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft
    The 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. 
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  • From Google to Flatiron Health and the Fight Against Cancer

    Aug 24, 2012, 12:50 PM by Michael Croft
    Business Insider | After selling their start-up, Invite Media, to Google for $81 million, Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg have founded a new company, Flatiron Health, aimed at devising ways to help mine clinical data and cure cancer. 
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  • Video: Nancy Kelley on the New York Genome Center

    Aug 23, 2012, 09:50 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Video: Nancy Kelley, founding executive director of the New York Genome Center, speaks on camera with Bio-IT World editor Kevin Davies about the rapid progress and future plans for the new genome center currently under construction in the SoHo district of Manhattan.
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