• Building A Commons: How Bristol-Myers Squibb And BioTeam Used Gen3 To Build A New Data Paradigm

    Bio-IT World | Bristol-Myers Squibb wanted a fundamental change in how the big pharma approached data. They wanted a tool that ensured authentication and authorization, while empowering users to find well-characterized data they need, and a catalog all of the applications, tools, and analyses in use. With help from BioTeam, they found a solution in a custom Gen3 data commons.

    Jan 22, 2020

  • Franklin Award Opens Call For Nominations, Seeks Diversity

    Bio-IT World  The call for nominations is now open for the 2020 Benjamin Franklin Award, the award given annually recognizing open access in the life sciences. Nominations can be made by any member of Bioinformatics.org, a free membership organization. The organizers hope that more nominations will better reflect the diversity of the life sciences community.

    Jan 20, 2020

  • MGI Launches End-to-End Sequencing Platform With DNBSEQ-T7 Sequencer

    Bio-IT World | MGI, a subsidiary of BGI Group, has made a few announcements already this week: market clearance for its G and T Series sequencers in Asia Pacific countries and Europe, and an end-to-end genomics solution automating sample pre-processing through data analytics.

    Jan 15, 2020

  • The Healthcare Value Proposition For AWS’s New Data Exchange

    Bio-IT World | Amazon Web Services has launched AWS Data Exchange, a service that makes it easy for millions of AWS customers to securely find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte is integrating tools to make the process particularly easy for healthcare data.

    Jan 15, 2020