• Whole Genome Sequencing Provides Fast, Accurate Diagnoses in the NICU

    Oct 3, 2012, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Using two new algorithms and Illumina’s newest sequencer, doctors at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, have used whole genome sequencing to rapidly diagnose genetic diseases in acutely ill newborns. The results were published today in Science Translational Medicine.
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  • How Data Centers Deal with Big Data

    Oct 3, 2012, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft
    eWeek | Big data can mean big traffic jams and throughput is increasingly becoming a concern for data centers. According to a recent survey, the biggest bottleneck is network I/O.
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  • Renaming the Cloud

    Oct 3, 2012, 11:05 AM by Michael Croft
    ReadWriteWeb | The Cloud may need to reinvent itself. A recent national survey by Wakefield Research, commissioned by Citrix, showed that most Americans don't connect the term "cloud" with computer networks.
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  • Drug Discovery as Investment

    Oct 2, 2012, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft
    In the Pipeline | Derek Lowe looks at Andrew Lo's new funding model for biotech. Lo proposes raising $30 billion for oncology drug discovery as an investment.
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  • Big Data Meets Big Compute: Cycle Challenge Winner Logs a “Compute Century” on Amazon Cloud

    Oct 2, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | The winner of the Big Science Challenge, a contest convened last year by Cycle Computing to provide $10,000 in cloud computing resources for groundbreaking biomedical research, has successfully completed the first phase of its project while logging more than 115 compute years on the Amazon Cloud. 
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  • Oracle Announces AWS Competitor

    Oct 1, 2012, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Computerworld | In an OpenWorld talk on Sunday, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison introduced a new Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering and listed Amazon Web Services as its primary competitor.
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  • Consumer Genetics Thoughts and Data

    Sep 28, 2012, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Reason.com | Just in time for next week's big Consumer Genetics Conference in Boston, Ronald Bailey talks about the wonders of consumer genetics.
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  • Pay-As-You-Go Papers

    Sep 28, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft
    The Scientist | A pilot program is allowing University of Utah readers to "check out" Nature papers from the library for as little as $3 with the help of Readcube reference management software. Compared to purchasing reprints for $35, the program represents significant savings for researchers.
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  • The People’s Parrot: the First Community-Sponsored Genome

    Sep 28, 2012, 06:05 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World  | Researchers in Puerto Rico have taken the concept of public funding for genome research to a new level. Paid for with money raised from art and fashion shows and private donations, scientists and students at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez have sequenced the genome of the critically endangered Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata)—and maybe introduced a new model for genome research.  
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  • ChemAxon Opens East Coast Offices

    Sep 27, 2012, 15:25 PM by Michael Croft
    Sacramento Bee | ChemAxon has opened new East coast headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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  • Knome Launches knoSYS 100 Genome Supercomputer to Enhance Interpretation

    Sep 27, 2012, 07:25 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Knome, the informatics company co-founded by George Church that bills itself as the “human genome interpretation” company, is launching a dedicated “genome supercomputer” designed to sit next to a next-gen sequencer and enhance the interpretation of genome sequences using Knome's proprietary software.  
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  • Biofuels: Technology vs. the Market

    Sep 26, 2012, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Fast Company | Making their biofuel is a lot like making beer, says Eduardo Loosli, the plant manager at Amyris's Brazilian headquarters. But instead of yeast producing alcohol from sugar, the Amyris genetically modified yeast produce farnesene.
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  • Too Sexy for Your Data?

    Sep 26, 2012, 12:05 PM by Michael Croft
    Harvard Business Review | What's the sexiest job in the 21st century? Harvard Business Review says it's data scientist. With all the messy datasets available to us now, sorting through and processing that information is an opportunity for creativity, ingenuity,and some very sexy computing.
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  • What the Complete-BGI Merger Really Means

    Sep 26, 2012, 11:45 AM by Michael Croft
    Xconomy | As the dust settles on the BGI-Complete Genomics announcements, we can start to consider what the merger means for the industry and genomics-driven medicine.
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  • HHMI Names 13 Biomed Research Scholars

    Sep 26, 2012, 02:05 AM by Michael Croft
    HHMI | The Howard Hughes Medical Center has chosen 13 basic researchers as recipients of its Senior International Research Scholar (SIRS) awards. Each research scholar will receive a grant of $100,000 per year over five years.
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  • BGI and Gates Foundation Collaborate

    Sep 25, 2012, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | BGI and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to begin immediate collaboration on global health and agricultural development.
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  • Data Centers and the Real Infrastructure Behind the Cloud

    Sep 25, 2012, 01:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World Roundup | There's been much discussion this week of data centers and the virtual cloud's actual impact on the environment.
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  • Phase II Flub for Peregrine

    Sep 24, 2012, 12:55 PM by Michael Croft
    Cancer Grace | A week after releasing favorable Phase II results for the novel vascular-targeting immunotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer, bavituximab, study sponsor Peregrine Pharmaceuticals has announced "major discrepancies" in the trial.
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  • Vienna Gets Set to Host Bio-IT World Europe 2012

    Sep 24, 2012, 06:55 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | Vienna may be known as the City of Music, but in three weeks it will also be a hub for life sciences, informatics, and IT. Bio-IT World’s fourth  European Conference & Expo finds a new home in Vienna, Austria, bringing tracks on drug discovery informatics; data infrastructure and high performance computing; cloud-based bioinformatics and clinical genomics to the heart of Europe.  
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  • Allen Brain Atlas Reveals Data from First Two Scanned Brains

    Sep 21, 2012, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Forbes | The Allen Brain Atlas published its first results yesterday in Nature, and some were surprising. Gene expression on the right and left sides of the brain looks very similar, but the variety that is there seems to be pretty important.
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