• HHMI Awards Three Interdisciplinary Grants

    Sep 13, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft
    HHMI | HHMI has awarded three grants to develop interdisciplinary graduate training programs that integrate the biomedical sciences with the physical sciences and engineering, as part of its Interfaces Initiative.
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  • SABs for Biotech Startups

    Sep 12, 2012, 10:30 AM by Michael Croft
    Forbes | For early biotechs, a scientific advisory board can provide an objective, external perspective and quality authentication, but they can also be expensive and create challenges. 
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  • X Prize Launches Open Bioinformatics Challenge

    Sep 11, 2012, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World | The Archon Genomics X Prize is launching a Bioinformatics Challenge tomorrow morning at 9:00 PST. The challenge is offering a $2,500 prize for the “most impactful, most material” improvements to the validation protocol and software for the X Prize said Grant Campany, senior director & prize lead, Archon Genomics X PRIZE presented by Express Scripts.
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  • Illumina Launches Fast Clinical Sequencing, Data Sets, Clinical Alliance

    Sep 11, 2012, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina announced several advancements in clinical genomic sequencing today including Individual Genome Sequencing (IGS) service, a strategic alliance with Partners HealthCare, and five content sets to provide comprehensive evaluation of genes associated with specific disease area.   
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  • NHGRI Expands Genomics Divisions

    Sep 10, 2012, 13:05 PM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World Brief | The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) announced a reorganization today to divide the Extramural Research Program into four new divisions: three genomic divisions and extramural operations. The changes will become effective on October 1.  
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  • Broad and AstraZeneca Launch Collaboration for Antivirals, Antibacterials

    Sep 10, 2012, 09:15 AM by Michael Croft
    Bio-IT World Brief | The Broad Institute and AstraZeneca are collaborating on a project to indentify new chemical compounds targeting bacterial and viral infections. Infectious and parasitic diseases are the world’s second-largest leading cause of death and disability according to the World Health Organization’s Global Burden of Disease report.  
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  • Australian Researchers Launch Proteome Browser

    Sep 10, 2012, 08:20 AM by Michael Croft
    Australian 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.
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  • 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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  • ENCODE Inspires

    Sep 10, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft
    Economist | More on the ENCODE project. The Economist likens it to Keats' reaction upon reading Homer.
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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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