• Sequencing Patients' Genomes Might Not Break The Health Care Bank

    STAT | The first rigorous study of its kind finds that sequencing people's genomes might not lead to extensive and expensive follow-up care, researchers reported.

    Mar 22, 2018

  • CRISPR Strategy & Standards: How Synthego’s Free Software Lays The Groundwork For CRISPR Futures

    Bio-IT World | Synthego has had a remarkable year of development, including their Inference of CRISPR Edits, an open source algorithm for validating CRISPR edits that offers rapid, reproducible analysis of Sanger sequencing data.

    Mar 21, 2018

  • Global Gene Corp, Regeneron Announce Largest Genomics Program For Indian Population

    The Times of India | Global Gene Corp, a well-known genomics data platform, has teamed up with US-based Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC) to sequence the exomes of people from the Indian subcontinent and examine the links between human genetic variations and specific diseases.

    Mar 20, 2018

  • The Struggle To Build A Massive “Biobank” Of Patient Data

    The New York Times | At a cost of $1.4 billion, the NIH’s All of Us program may help scientists discover new links between diseases, genes, and lifestyle. But the project faces formidable obstacles.

    Mar 19, 2018

  • The Next-generation Screening Lab What, Why, How?

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | As part of the ELRIG Drug Discovery conference in Liverpool (UK) in October 2017, a group of 60 delegates came together to discuss the lab of the future in a workshop organised by the Standards in Laboratory Automation (SiLA) consortium. The workshop focused on four themes: users, suppliers, interoperability, and news of German SmartLab initiatives. To engage with considerable audience experience, speakers presented their views and opened the floor to discussion. We took notes.

    Mar 16, 2018

  • 2018 Benjamin Franklin Award Winner Announced

    Bio-IT World | Bioinformatics.org has named Desmond Higgins, Professor of Bioinformatics at the University College Dublin (UCD) Conway Institute, as the winner of the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences.

    Mar 15, 2018

  • Harvard-MIT’s Broad Institute Powers Genomic Research in the Cloud

    Wall Street Journal | Genomic researchers at more than 100 public and private institutions comb 70 petabytes of data aiming to advance the understanding and treatment of human disease and lay the groundwork for new therapies.

    Mar 14, 2018

  • Flu Déjà Vu

    Bio-IT World | A century after influenza terrorized the planet, a harsh flu season and the looming threat of another pandemic is helping spur efforts toward a more powerful “universal” vaccine.

    Mar 14, 2018