• Finding The Usable In FAIR Data At #BioIT18

    Bio-IT World | Last year at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, three teams competed in a Hackathon to see if they could make their datasets more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). This year, the organizers of the FAIR Hackathon wanted to see if they could take those principles to the next level.

    Jun 6, 2018

  • MyHeritage DNA Suffers Security Breach, Only Email Addresses Compromised

    Bio-IT World News Brief  MyHeritage, an Israeli online genealogy platform company, announced yesterday evening that the email addresses and hashed passwords of 92 million MyHeritage users were found on a private server not linked to the company. The security breach includes users who signed up for the service on or before October 26, 2017.

    Jun 5, 2018

  • Buying GitHub Would Take Microsoft Back To Its Roots

    Bloomberg.com | For Microsoft, acquiring GitHub would be both a return to the company's earliest roots and a sharp turnaround from where it was a decade ago.

    Jun 4, 2018

  • Carl Zimmer Hosts “Ask Me Anything” Session On Reddit, Tackles Heredity, Genetics, DTC Testing

    Bio-IT World | To celebrate the recent publication of his book She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, New York Times science columnist Carl Zimmer hosted an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session yesterday on Reddit, covering a wide range of topics from consumer genetic testing and how genomic information should be integrated into healthcare, to heredity and where Zimmer stands on genetic cloning.

    Jun 1, 2018

  • Who Gets Credit For CRISPR? Prestigious Award Singles Out Three

    STAT | Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna, and Virginijus Šikšnys will each receive a gold medal and share the $1 million that comes with the Kavli Prize in nanoscience. This is only the latest verdict on the controversial question of who deserves credit for the revolutionary genome-editing tool, CRISPR.

    May 31, 2018

  • Plugging Your Skill Sets Into Big Data

    Bio-IT World | When 3,500 members of the biotech and life sciences industries converged in Boston for the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, the idea of hiring the right people in Big Data popped up again and again. A panel of CEOs and executives converged to discuss this very topic.

    May 30, 2018

  • #BioIT18: Data Science Definitions

    Bio-IT World | Data science was one of the driving themes at this year's Bio-IT World Conference & Expo—so it only makes sense that one of the plenary keynote sessions focused on defining what that "data science" actually means.

    May 29, 2018

  • Open And On Trend: BioTeam Panel Returns, Evolves For #BioIT18

    Bio-IT World | For the second year in a row, the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo hosted a panel of BioTeam staff and other experts as they discussed bio-IT trends, sharing their insights on a myriad of topics, including the struggle between science and IT, virtual reality, and what trends are embarrassingly overhyped.

    May 25, 2018

  • All Of Us Issues Funding Opportunity For Genome Centers For Sequencing, Analysis

    Bio-IT World Brief | Today, less than a month after opening national enrollment, the All of Us Research Program issued a call for Genome Centers able to generate genotype and whole genome sequence data from participants’ biosamples. The program anticipates funding up to two Genome Center awards in FY2018, with analyses to begin this fall.

    May 23, 2018

  • Microsoft Offering GDPR-Like Protection For All Customers

    Security Now | Microsoft plans to expand GDPR privacy protections to all its customers, both inside and outside the European Union.

    May 23, 2018

  • Pacific Biosciences, EPAM, Oxford Genetics, And More: News From May 2018

    Bio-IT World | May featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Pacific Biosciences, EPAM, Oxford Genetics, and more.

    May 23, 2018