• Dealing With Fast Growing Data With Hyperscale Data Distribution

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | The biopharmaceutical industry is facing fast growing data movement challenges. The optimization of the data movement setup must be done in a holistic manner, not by each stack separately.

    Aug 16, 2018

  • Clouds And Collaboration: How St. Jude Built The Team That Built The St. Jude Cloud

    Bio-IT World | In April of this year St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital launched the St. Jude Cloud, an online data-sharing and collaboration platform that provides researchers access to the world's largest public repository of pediatric cancer genomics data. What started with St. Jude’s isolated bioinformatics frustrations has expanded to a vision for global collaboration in pediatric oncology.

    Aug 16, 2018

  • CIO Perspective: Creating Community On Campus At St. Jude

    Bio-IT World | The process of creating the St. Jude Cloud was a difficult one for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. But St. Jude’s CIO and chair of Computational Biology believe the relationships cultivated during the process will create a user community as much within St. Jude as without.

    Aug 15, 2018

  • Clues To Your Health Are Hidden At 6.6 Million Spots In Your DNA

    The New York Times | With a sophisticated new algorithm, scientists have found a way to forecast an individual's risks for five deadly diseases.

    Aug 14, 2018

  • OmniTier’s CompStor Brings De Novo Analytics To Genomics

    Bio-IT World News Brief | OmniTier announced that in a joint study with researchers at the Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine, the company successfully demonstrated human DNA variant calling using de novo global assembly techniques with breakthrough performance and cost.

    Aug 14, 2018

  • The Future Of Humans As Model Organisms

    Science | A better grasp of the dynamic relationship between genes and the environment may truly sharpen our ability to determine disease risk and response to therapy, argues a recent perspective essay in Science.

    Aug 13, 2018

  • US Scientist Who Edited Human Embryos With CRISPR Responds To Critics

    MIT Technology Review | Facing criticism from fellow scientists, the researcher behind the world's largest effort to edit human embryos with CRISPR is vowing to continue his effort to develop what he calls "IVF gene therapy."

    Aug 8, 2018

  • A New Machine Learning Approach To Document Classification – A Pfizer/SciBite Collaboration

    Bio-IT World | To address the issues surrounding knowledge transfer, Pfizer and SciBite collaborated on the development of ClassifR, a web-based tool that combines SciBite’s NER platform with novel machine learning (ML) approaches to automate the process of metadata extraction and alignment of incoming documents against a user-defined hierarchy.

    Aug 8, 2018

  • Prototypes Of China’s Exascale Supercomputers Point To Some New Realities

    TOP500 | Two prototypes of China's initial batch of exascale supercomputers are now up and running according to local news reports. And neither of them appears to be based on x86 technology.

    Aug 6, 2018