• Seqster’s Perfect Timing, Powerful Platform Might Change Health

    Bio-IT World | Early adopters of Google Health or Microsoft Health Vault may remember the process of consolidating personal health records with a good deal of frustration or just a sense of futility. But Seqster, a privately-held health data management platform that emerged from stealth mode this past February, believes they have gotten it right this time.

    Sep 18, 2018

  • Large-Scale Global Genome Projects Choose PacBio Sequencing To Help Decode Life

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The Vertebrate Genomes Project recently released the first 15 of an anticipated 66,000 high-quality reference genomes that will eventually include all vertebrate species on Earth.

    Sep 14, 2018

  • Google Unveils Dataset Search For Scientists, Other Data Junkies

    TOP500 | Google has added a Dataset Search app to its empire of web-based tools, making it easier for researchers, analysts, and anyone else with an affection for data to access publicly available repositories.

    Sep 12, 2018

  • Pivotal CRISPR Patent Battle Won By Broad Institute

    Nature | On 10 September, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit awarded the pivotal intellectual property to the Broad Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts, upholding a previous decision by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The decision spells defeat for a team of inventors that includes molecular biologist Jennifer Doudna University of California, Berkeley (UC).

    Sep 10, 2018