• PacBio Announces New Analysis Method for Tandem Repeats

    Bio-IT World | PacBio has announced the availability of a new computational analysis method for profiling more than a million tandem repeats across the human genome using PacBio’s native long-read HiFi sequencing data. The Tandem Repeat Genotyping Tool is intended to provide scientists with the ability to obtain a full characterization of the sequence and methylation status of tandem repeats genome-wide.

    Sep 27, 2022
  • State of the Industry: Checking in on AI Trends and Progress with Fernanda Foertter

    Bio-IT World | In the latest episode of Bio-IT World’s Trends from the Trenches podcast, host Stan Gloss, founder of BioTeam, gets an update from Fernanda Foertter, Voltron Data, about her AI experiences in the past few years and whether we’ve made any real progress.

    Sep 27, 2022
  • Lessons From the Recent HCA 2022 General Meeting: Applying Single-Cell Data to Clinical Decision Making

    Bio-IT World | Since mid-2021, many papers have described actionable links between genome-wide association studies and specific diseases based on single-cell data. But one associated challenge that comes up repeatedly is the handling, storing, and analyzing of the abundant data that is now available.

    Sep 23, 2022