Nov 19, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nov 19, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Yale University News | Scientists at Yale School of Medicine have found that the human body is "made up of a mosaic of cells with different genomes." While studying skin cells derived from stem cells, researchers found genetic variation at the cellular level: at least 30% of skin cells displayed varying levels of copy number variations.

Nov 16, 2012, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | A new supercomputing ranking compares how well machines deal with big datasets. The Graph500 benchmark was introduced in 2010 to rank how systems search for data in a large data set.

Nov 16, 2012, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

GEN | Next-gen sequencing company Helicos filed for Chapter 11 protection yesterday. In the filing, Helicos listed $15.478 million in liabilities and only $3.503 million in assets.

Nov 16, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

eWeek | HP yesterday introduced a new server specifically designed for big data workloads. The ProLiant SL4500 Generation 8 is tuned for petabytes and multiple petabytes.

Nov 15, 2012, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Clinical Innovation & Technology | In a study published in the Journal of Translational Medicine , the authors were able to identify 25 biomarker candidates for Alzheimer's disease via the data mining of publicly available databases,

Nov 15, 2012, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

eCliniqua | Janssen Research & Development has established a global cross-pharma Investigator Databank designed to improve efficiencies of industry-sponsored clinical trials. The effort is part of the newly-created TransCelerate BioPharma. 

Nov 15, 2012, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Startupticker | A new personal health record gives users a virtual body model to track their personal health history. Nhumi users tag free text with 3D coordinates recorded on a virtual model of the human anatomy by simply clicking on the body, creating a pin, then dragging the pin to their text.

Nov 14, 2012, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Phys.org | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a $50 million grant from NIH to help speed the translation of scientific discoveries into improvements in human health. The grant will reportedly help Washington University pursue the goals of the BioMed 21 initiative to encourage cross-disciplinary and translational research.

Nov 14, 2012, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Gen9, a developer of scalable technologies for synthesizing and assembling DNA, today announced the five winners of its inaugural G-Prize contest. Collectively, the awardees stand to receive more than 1 million base pairs of DNA manufactured with Gen9’s unique next-generation gene synthesis technology.

Nov 14, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | When it comes to prenatal testing, it’s a numbers game. Low risk, hormone-based tests are unreliable. The tests have false positive rates of 5%, which means over 120,000 women each year get positive results—high risk results—leading to high stress situations and unnecessary amniocenteses. The flip side is a false negative rate of 15%. Women get the all clear, when in fact something is wrong. Jonathan Sheena, Natera’s Chief Technology Officer, minces no words. “Those numbers are not suitable for this century.”

Nov 14, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Complete Genomics received an unsolicited counter bid on November 5 that could have disrupted the firm's ongoing acquisition by BGI. The bid, from "Party H", was for $3.30 per share, 5% more than the BGI offer price, however Complete Genomics rejected the offer on November 8.

Nov 13, 2012, 15:00 PM by Michael Croft

San Francisco Business Times | A Stanford University team won $200,000 in the Prize4Life competition for an algorithm to reduce the number of patients in ALS trials.

Nov 13, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

PC Magazine | On Monday, Intel announced it is shipping its Xeon Phi products--a product line specifically targeting competition from NVIDIA and AMD. The Xeon Phi chips are packaged on discrete graphics-like cards and are built to work with Intel's Xeon E5 family of server and workstation CPUs.

Nov 12, 2012, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Zee News | Using a sophisticated approach, researchers at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and the Columbia Initiative in Systems Biology at Columbia University Medical Center showed linkages between gene mutations associated with schizophrenia and autism.

Nov 12, 2012, 07:55 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Weighing in at an impressive 17.59 petaflops, the new Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee has claimed the top slot at the first attempt in the latest Top500 world supercomputing rankings published today. 

Nov 9, 2012, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nov 9, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nov 9, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature Biotechnology | The biggest challenges in genomics now lie in interpretation and assembly. There's been a lot of progress, but there's also more to go. Ten experts discuss the advances and the needs to manage the millions of genomes soon to be sequenced.

Nov 9, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Roundup | Cray has signed an agreement to acquire Appro International for $25 million to create a cluster business. The company also discussed a new interconnect, Aries, that will feature a new routing topology that together promise to dramatically improve internal bandwidth.