• TOP500 Supercomputers List Announced

    TOP500 | The 54th edition of the TOP500 saw China and the US maintaining their dominance of the list, albeit in different categories.

    Nov 18, 2019

  • Reducing Wasted Life Science Research By Using Factorial Experiments

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | To combat the waste of life science research, Sridhar Iyengar advocates building comprehensive lab monitoring and information systems that, using "AI", can "correlate fluctuations in many different variables" to deviations in observed results. There is, however, another completely different approach to tease out from the "myriad factors": factorial experimentation, in particular, 2-level screening experiments.

    Nov 18, 2019

  • Oxford Nanopore Develops Pore-C, Couples Chromatin Conformation Capture With Long Read Tech

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Last week Weill Cornell Medicine and Oxford Nanopore published a pre-print describing Pore-C, a new nanopore sequencing technique which couples chromatin conformation capture with Oxford Nanopore Technologies long reads to directly sequence multi-way chromatin contacts without amplification.

    Nov 14, 2019

  • Tumor Organoids For High-Throughput Drug Screening

    Bio-IT World | Interest is growing among oncology researchers in using tumor organoids to mimic cancer characteristics and drug responses in humans.

    Nov 13, 2019

  • OptraHEALTH, InformedDNA Partner To Expand Access To Genetics Experts

    Bio-IT World News Brief | OptraHEALTH and InformedDNA today announced that they will partner to offer access to InformedDNA’s board-certified genetic counselors through GeneFAX’s AI-enabled CounselorConnect platform.

    Nov 8, 2019

  • Healthy Gut Microbiome Reference Database Initiated

    Bio-IT World | A group of researchers describe an initial baseline healthy gut microbiome reference database and put forth a prototype reporting template. The goal behind the work is to map the healthy gut microbiome so that they and other researchers can use the data to develop disease-specific prediction models.

    Nov 6, 2019