• Asia-wide Genome Mapping Project Reveals Insights Into Asian Ancestry, Genetic Diversity

    Bio-IT World News Brief | In their first study reported in Nature this week, the GenomeAsia 100K consortium analyzed the genomes of 1,739 people, which represents the widest coverage of genetic diversity in Asia to date.

    Dec 6, 2019

  • To Advance Polygenic Risk Scores, Large Studies Need Better Genotyping Tools

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | A decade ago, the concept of a polygenic risk score had not even been cited in a genomics publication. Today, it’s almost impossible to pick up a human genetics journal or attend a conference without hearing about these new biomarkers.

    Dec 5, 2019

  • The Nose Knows: Developing Artificial Intelligence Sniffers

    Bio-IT World | When you think of artificial intelligence, what comes to mind? A computer brain? Computer vision? Auditory language processing? What about smell? It’s an area of research IBM is busy exploring.

    Dec 4, 2019

  • Benchling: Enabling the Next Generation of Data and Workflow Tracking

    Bio-IT World Benchling’s value proposition is easy to see. For researchers—whether in an academic lab, small biotech, or big pharma—keeping track of research using paper lab notebooks, email, and spreadsheets is cumbersome and inefficient. But the challenges to science are much bigger than just misplaced notes or forgotten results. The real value, says Saji Wickramasekara, comes from enabling a new level of collaboration and data provenance.

    Dec 2, 2019