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Sep 17, 2012, 06:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | Panasas today announced an update to its parallel storage system: ActiveStor 14, the first product in the industry to use flash memory and an intelligent storage layout for mixed workloads, Geoffrey Noer, senior director of product marketing, tells Bio-IT World.
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Sep 14, 2012, 10:20 AM
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Michael Croft
TACC | Nobel laureate Bruce Beutler is using the supercomputing resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin to sequence the exomes of 8,000 mice in order to identify the mammalian "resistome".
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Sep 14, 2012, 10:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Boston Globe | PerkinElmer has acquired exclusive rights to TIBCO Software's data analysis software in scientific research and development markets.
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Sep 14, 2012, 07:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Nature News | Three sequencing studies published this week take on lung cancer, laying the groundwork for more effective personalized treatment. The studies looked at a combined 361 patients with different types of lung cancers and an additional 17 tumors.
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Sep 13, 2012, 16:30 PM
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Michael Croft
PSFK | Boehringer Ingelheim has developed a Facebook game called Syrum. The health of the world is in the user's hands, and players can collaborate with others to save it.
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Sep 13, 2012, 13:00 PM
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Michael Croft
Bio-IT World | SAN FRANCISCO—A variety of cloud computing and supercomputing resources and applications shone brightly at the Bio-IT World Cloud Summit* in San Francisco this week.
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Sep 13, 2012, 09:00 AM
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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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Sep 12, 2012, 10:30 AM
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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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Sep 11, 2012, 14:00 PM
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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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Sep 11, 2012, 12:00 PM
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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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Sep 10, 2012, 13:05 PM
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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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Sep 10, 2012, 09:15 AM
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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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Sep 10, 2012, 08:20 AM
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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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Sep 10, 2012, 08:00 AM
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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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Sep 10, 2012, 08:00 AM
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Michael Croft
Economist | More on the ENCODE project. The Economist likens it to Keats' reaction upon reading Homer.
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Sep 7, 2012, 07:00 AM
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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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Sep 7, 2012, 06:00 AM
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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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Sep 6, 2012, 10:25 AM
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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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Sep 6, 2012, 10:00 AM
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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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Sep 6, 2012, 09:40 AM
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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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