• Benchling Raises $14.5M From Benchmark To Advance Life Sciences Research

    Bio-IT World Brief | Today Benchling announced it has closed $14.5M in Series B funding led by Benchmark, with participation from F-Prime Capital and returning investor Thrive Capital.

    Jun 14, 2018

  • Archive First, For The Future

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | The life sciences industry has continually experienced one innovation after another that multiples the amount of data being generated, outpacing enterprise IT. It’s crucial for life sciences IT to invest in the right infrastructure now, to manage their growing data and prepare for the future.

    Jun 13, 2018

  • Move Over China: U.S. Is Again Home To World’s Speediest Supercomputer

    The New York Times | For the past five years, China has had the world's fastest computer. But as of Friday, Summit, a machine built in the United States, is taking the lead.

    Jun 12, 2018

  • NeuroBANK Banking On Collaboration, Compassion, Clinical Research

    Bio-IT World | A Harvard professor and Bio-IT World 2018 Best Practices Award winner is banking on old-fashioned collaboration and compassion, along with 21st century technology, to help principal investigators collect data for clinical research and to facilitate the development of new therapies and cures.

    Jun 12, 2018

  • All The Gear But Still No Idea? Why Machines Alone Can’t Cure Cancer

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Despite the hype and fanfare that has accompanied massive supercomputers and AI platforms in recent years, there is still no tool capable of delivering answers to questions such as, “How do I cure a particular patient’s type of cancer?”

    Jun 11, 2018

  • #BioIT18 News, Notes, And Coverage

    Bio-IT World | Last month in Boston, over 3,500 members of the biotech and life science industries came together to share thoughts, insights, and technologies during the 2018 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. The conference featured 16 tracks including Bioinformatics, FAIR Data for Genomic Applications, Data Transfer, Clinical Genomics, Next-Gen Sequencing Informatics, and more.

    Jun 8, 2018

  • Reporters’ Notebook: Clustal, FAIR Data, Rare Diseases, Data Science Community At #BioIT18

    Bio-IT World | When over 3,500 members of the biotech and life science industries spend three days together, there’s more good stuff than a writer can possibly fit into post-event coverage. Our Reporters’ Notebook comprises some of the bits and pieces that we collected over the three days in Boston.

    Jun 8, 2018

  • Bill And Melinda Gates Start A Nonprofit Biotech In Boston

    Forbes | The Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, which is holding an event today to show off its plans, will aim to develop new medicines and vaccines for malaria, tuberculosis, and diarrhea, which together account for 2.6 million deaths a year globally, many of them in children.

    Jun 7, 2018

  • Data Are Forever

    Bio-IT World | For attendees at this year's Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, perhaps the biggest focal point was the near-permanence of data—particularly juxtaposed against the limited contemporaneous uses for any given dataset in healthcare and life-science IT.

    Jun 7, 2018

  • Wellcome Sanger Institute Sequences Reference Genomes Of 3,000 Dangerous Bacteria

    Bio-IT World Brief | The genomes of more than 3,000 bacteria, including some of the world’s most dangerous, have been sequenced by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in collaboration with Pacific Biosciences.

    Jun 6, 2018