Feb 15, 2013, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Roundup | This week, PeerJ published its first articles--on sauropod necks, the cups and balls trick, anti-apoptotic signaling in mammalian hibernation and more. The scientific publishing site is more than just an open access publisher. PeerJ has built an innovative platform from scratch.

Feb 15, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Amazon Web Services has released its cloud-based data warehouse Redshift to all users. Redshift users can provison a single 2TB data warehouse or as a cluster of 16 2TB nodes or 16TB nodes, by default.

Feb 15, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Wired | Genomics is poised for a "cell phone moment," Wired says--the tipping point where the technology becomes a commodity, hardware is cheap, and software and apps drives the industry.

Feb 14, 2013, 17:30 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | sbv IMPROVER announced its next challenge today at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference in San Francisco. The Species Translation Challenge is an open scientific challenge that will use crowdsourcing to help define the limits of rodent models as predictors of human biology. The challenge will launch later in 2013.

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

Bio-IT World | Cancer Commons has announced six new cancer ecosystem Alliance members: Knight Diagnostic Laboratories at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU); the Thoracic Oncology Program, University of Chicago Medicine; Science Exchange, an online marketplace for scientific services; and patient advocates the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, Imerman Angels, and Melanoma Research Foundation.

Feb 13, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Bioinformatics.org is accepting nominations now for the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences. The award is a humanitarian/bioethics award presented annually to an individual who has, in his or her practice, promoted free and open access to the materials and methods used in the life sciences. Nominations are being accepted until Monday, February 18.

Feb 12, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Technology Review | Behind the doors in Shenzhen, 1,000 bioinformaticians are working on 2,000 human genomes, 90 varietys of chickpea, and a host of other grand projects.

Feb 12, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Reuters | Sanofi is buying more shares of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, its current partner on cholesterol and rheumatoid arthritis. Sanofi currently controls 16.7% of the company but has the right to control up to 30%.

Feb 11, 2013, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Strand Life Sciences is no biotech newcomer, but the Bangalore, India-based company is getting a burst of new attention after San Francisco-based Burrill & Company today announced a multi-million dollar investment in the company. The new funds will be used to accelerate the growth of the company's evolution into precision diagnostics in health care and expand Strand's reach into global markets, the company says.

Feb 7, 2013, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Transporting big data is a big problem, but an LA-based start-up called BitSpeed believes its software tools, based on TCP (transmission control protocol), can provide a viable and cost-effective solution for life sciences organizations.

Feb 6, 2013, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The new Chief Technology Officer at Cycle Computing, James Cuff, spent the past seven years as working “at the interface of science and advanced computing technologies,” providing a breadth of high-performance computing, storage and software expertise, all the while striving to manage a monstrous surge in data. In his new position, Cuff aims to apply some of his insights and ideas to an even bigger canvas. Cuff spoke to Bio-IT World editor Kevin Davies and shared his views about big data, cloud computing, and the future of research computing.

Feb 6, 2013, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World News Brief | Niklas Blomberg has been named the Founding Director of ELIXIR, the pan-European infrastructure for biological information that officially entered its implementation phase in January 2013.

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

Computerworld | When Dell finalized its buyout, it opening the door for HP to take over customers, HP said yesterday in a statement. The statement comes amid rumors that HP's board is also considering major changes to the company.

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.