Oct 29, 2012, 06:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | A new 20 petaflop supercomputer dubbed Titan is powering up at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee and ready to tackle some a host of scientific applications.

Oct 26, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Time | Advances in DNA sequencing present challenges for doctors. Pediactric sequencing can help sick babies, but it can also give doctors more information than they know what to do with.

Oct 26, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

HPCwire | The world's current fastest supercomputer--Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Sequoia--has created a simulation of the human heart.

Oct 26, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | News and product briefs from the life sciences. Thomson Reuters releases drug repositioning white paper; Broad  announces GenePattern v3.4; and iNova moves to Singapore.

Oct 25, 2012, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bloomberg | Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have successfully replaced unhealthy DNA from one human egg with disease-free genetic material from another.

Oct 25, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

eWeek | Teradata, a provider of analytic data solutions, has announced new database capabilities that enable customers to deliver real-time agility. The new Teradata Database capabilities include workload management features, Teradata Data Lab with Smart Loader, Teradata Studio and Teradata Virtual Machine Edition.

Oct 25, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Sci-News.com | Researchers in New Zealand sequenced mitochondrial DNA of some of the country's earliest inhabitants, and discovered more genetic diversity than previously thought.

Oct 24, 2012, 13:00 PM by Michael Croft

Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel | Building on its pioneering use of DNA sequencing to diagnose and treat Nic Volker, the Medical College of Wisconsin is in talks to develop an ambitious $60 million public/private partnership aimed at bringing sequencing to more patients.

Oct 24, 2012, 06:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | Gartner says that big data is becoming an engine of job creation. By 2015, big data will create 4.4 million IT jobs globally, of which 1.9 million will be in the U.S.

Oct 23, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Oct 22, 2012, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Mendels Pod | Bill Frezza, venture capitalist and Bio-IT World guest columnist (The Skeptical Outsider), talks to Mendels Pod about the two presidential candidates.

Oct 22, 2012, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Oct 22, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Wall Street Journal | Ancestry.com has been acquired by a European private equity firm for $1.6 billion. The buyer's goal--sources say--is expansion into Western Europe.

Oct 19, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Computerworld | The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has ratified the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), a set of protocols defining how companies can safely move data between private and public clouds.

Oct 19, 2012, 06:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World Guest Column | The Skeptical Outsider | Few perks of wealth are more widely demonized than the private jet. Yet these very symbols of power and luxury could save health care dollars by being placed at the disposal of the poor. In what alternate universe is this possible, you ask? In today’s Rube Goldberg U.S. health care market, where else?

Oct 18, 2012, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

Technology Review | The race to Mars is on! J. Craig Venter and Jonathan Rothberg both have their sights set on sequencing DNA found on the red planet.

Oct 18, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Scalyr Blog | Scalyr Blog breaks down Amazon's EC2 I/O performance with data from over 1,000 EC2 instances, $1,000 in AWS charges and billions of I/O operations. The results were stranger than they expected.

Oct 18, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

CA Technologies | A CA Technologies survey finds that more than 80% of IT decision makers call the mainframe a "highly strategic part of their IT plans." But  most consider it essential within the realm of their cloud plans.

Oct 18, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Extreme Tech | George Church and colleague Sri Kosuri at Harvard have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA using the DNA as just another digital storage device.

Oct 17, 2012, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

NYGC | There are two opinions in sequencing: "bigger is better" and "small is best." Big sequencing centers can scale efficiently, but sometimes big centers can't meet the specific needs of users.