• Liu Named 2020 Benjamin Franklin Award Laureate

    Bio-IT World | The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health’s Xiaole Shirley Liu has been named the 2020 Benjamin Franklin Award Laureate, Bioinformatics.org announced today.

    Mar 3, 2020

  • Hints On Data Storage And Transport From High Energy Physics

    Bio-IT World | It may be surprising that with a PhD in biochemistry, Brigitte Raumann spends a lot of time these days considering data storage and transport in high energy physics and astronomy. But that also puts her in the perfect position to recognize some of the lessons from those disciplines that the life sciences can pick up.

    Mar 2, 2020

  • MGI Announces $100 Genome; Illumina Files Patent Suit

    Bio-IT World MGI got some attention with its presentation this week of the $100 genome. Among the feedback, a patent infringement suit from Illumina relating to the “CoolMPS” sequencing products.

    Feb 27, 2020

  • Illumina, NSA Labs, Certara, And More: News From February 2020

    Bio-IT World February featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Illumina, NSA Labs, Certara, and more.

    Feb 27, 2020

  • The Pistoia Alliance’s Releases Latest Unified Data Model

    Bio-IT World  The Pistoia Alliance yesterday released the latest Unified Data Model (UDM) file format, Version 6, supported by funding from Biovia, Elsevier, GSK, Novartis, and Roche (recently joined by BMS). V6 delivers a stable foundation for the collection and exchange of reaction data and empowers the community to move forward with its adoption. The release is built upon standard (Allotrope-compatible) vocabularies for units of measure and analytical methods, allowing the systems to be interoperable. As increased adoption of AI and ML in R&D continues, such industry-wide data standards are essential in the move toward the digitally driven Lab of the Future (LoTF).

    Feb 26, 2020

  • A Deep Look At The Future Of Medicine

    Bio-IT World  Cardiologist Eric Topol, author of the Creative Destruction of Medicine and The Patient Will See You Now has often written about medicine and technology. But Deep Medicine isn’t just about technology.

    Feb 26, 2020

  • New Players Take the Field: How Private Employer Healthcare Could Mean More Focus on People

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Depending on which side of the gurney you find yourself, the U.S. healthcare system can be simultaneously viewed as either a modern-day gold rush or an impossible financial burden. In large part, this is because humans have been displaced by business objectives as the focal point of healthcare. If you’re seeking some sign of restored equilibrium between massive healthcare corporations (59 of the S&P 500 companies are healthcare-related) and the individuals they are meant to serve, there’s an inkling of real change, growing out of an unlikely corner… other massive corporations. 

    Feb 25, 2020