• DDN Partners With Hewlett Packard Enterprise To Deliver Unmatched HPC Storage Solutions

    Bio-IT World Brief | DDN has entered into a partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to integrate DDN’s parallel file system storage and flash storage cache technology with HPE’s HPC platforms. The focus of the partnership is to accelerate and simplify customers’ workflows in technical computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning environments.

    Nov 9, 2017

  • Build The Ebola Database In Africa

    Nature | To build trust, capacity and utility, put local researchers in charge of planned platform, says Brian Conton.

    Nov 8, 2017

  • Artificial Intelligence & Real World Data: The Next Steps In Your Big Data Journey

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | KPMG’s CEO Survey found that some of the largest U.S. life sciences companies are sending mixed signals about their commitment to technology and trailing other industries in their plans to adopt cutting edge technologies.

    Nov 8, 2017

  • What Happens When You Put 500,000 Peoples DNA Online

    The Atlantic | Huge genetic databases are changing how scientists study disease.

    Nov 7, 2017

  • NIH Launches Data Commons Pilot With 9 Projects

    Bio-IT World Brief | Yesterday the National Institutes of Health announced twelve awards totaling $9 million in Fiscal Year 2017 to launch a National Institutes of Health Data Commons Pilot Phase. The NIH Data Commons will be implemented in a four-year pilot phase to explore the feasibility and best practices for making digital objects available through cloud-based collaborative platforms.

    Nov 7, 2017

  • Why Thomson Reuters' Introduction Of Enterprise Graph Analytics To Its Global Customers Is A Big Deal For Big Data

    International Business Times UK | Older technology hasn't been able to keep up with data volumes and demand for insights; Cambridge Semantics' Sean Martin explains why business should sit up and take notice.

    Nov 6, 2017

  • Seven Bridges Leads Public-Private Partnership To Develop New Data Ecosystem For NIH

    Bio-IT World Brief | Seven Bridges today announced that it has been selected by the NIH to support the NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase. The Data Commons Pilot Phase is NIH’s latest effort to accelerate biomedical research through informatics. Seven Bridges will lead a team consisting of Repositive, Elsevier, and the Boston Veterans Affair Research Institute. Together, they are forming a private-public consortium called FAIR4CURES.

    Nov 6, 2017

  • Josh Denny On The All Of Us Research Program, Data Management On A National Scale

    Bio-IT World | Vanderbilt University has been biobanking patient specimens since 2007 when Josh Denny launched BioVU. Today, the biobank has nearly 250,000 samples, some of which have associated medical records dating back to the early 1980s. Josh Denny, who leads the All of Us Research Program Data and Research Center, hopes the Precision Medicine Initiative will empower the same kind of studies.

    Nov 6, 2017

  • What It's Really Like To Fundraise From Silicon Valley's VCs

    CNBC | So-called biotech rebel Ethan Perlstein describes fundraising as a whole lot of rejections and "crippling self-doubt," but he got through it. Here are the three biggest lessons he learned.

    Nov 3, 2017

  • A New Class: Protein-Protein Interactions As Drug Targets

    Bio-IT World | Since the onset of targeted drug discovery, a little before the turn of the millennium, intracellular drug targets have primarily been enzymes that catalyze reactions. However, a new type of intracellular drug target—Protein-Protein Interactions—are now expanding the space in which to search for new types of medicines.

    Nov 3, 2017

  • Gut Microbes Can Shape Responses To Cancer Immunotherapy

    Nature News & Comment | Studies find that species diversity and antibiotics influence cutting-edge treaments.

    Nov 2, 2017

  • 23andMe, Veeva Systems, Edico Genome, And More: News From October 2017

    Bio-IT World | October featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including 23andMe, Veeva Systems, Edico Genome, and more.

    Nov 2, 2017