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The Human Vaccines Project, Vanderbilt, And Illumina Collaborate To Decode The Human Immunome
Bio-IT World Brief | The Human Vaccines Project and Vanderbilt University Medical Center announced this week that they joined forces with Illumina to decipher the human immunome, the genetic underpinnings of the immune system.
Apr 12, 2017
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Top U.S. Scientists Advise On Ways To Foster Research Integrity
NPR.org | The National Academy of Sciences has toughened up its guidelines to call cutting corners, dubious statistics and not fully sharing research methods "detrimental" to science.
Apr 11, 2017
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ATUM Launches Cell-Line Development Service
Apr 10, 2017
Bio-IT World Brief | ATUM has announced an expansion of its services to include cell line development, which has been enabled by the company’s proprietary Leap-In Transposase genome engineering tools.
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Kevin Davies Named 2017 Guggenheim Fellow
Bio-IT World Brief | Congratulations are in order for Bio-IT World's founding editor, Kevin Davies. Kevin was just named a 2017 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Apr 7, 2017
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tranSMART Foundation, i2b2 Foundation Merge
Bio-IT World The tranSMART Foundation and the i2b2 Foundation are merging into a single foundation to advance the field of precision medicine. These organizations provide open-source software and databases representing more than 100 million patient lives to thousands of physicians and scientists worldwide.
Apr 6, 2017
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From Black Hole To Data Big Bang: Open Patent Chemistry Pips 20 Million Structures
Bio-IT World | While companies have always been aware of the crucial importance of patent disclosures in the context of intellectual property (IP), appreciation of their value as a data source is slowly increasing in the academic biomedical sector, particularly for medicinal chemistry as applied to drug discovery.
Apr 6, 2017
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Chinese Researchers Publish Comparisons Of BGISEQ-500, HiSeq2500
Bio-IT World Brief | Researchers from China’s National Institutes for Food and Drug Control have published reference data of the BGISEQ-500 sequencing platform compared to Illumina’s HiSeq2500 platform.
Apr 5, 2017
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How The Genomics Revolution Could Finally Help Africa
Nature News & Comment | New investments promise to get precision medicine and precision public health off the ground. But experts debate how much work needs to be done first.
Apr 5, 2017
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Qumulo Led by Isilon Execs Raises $30M to Push Data Storage Sales
Xconomy | Qumulo's founders, leadership team, and investors are all betting that the Seattle data storage technology provider can deliver a repeat of another local success story.
Apr 4, 2017
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2017 Benjamin Franklin Award Winner Announced
Bio-IT World Brief | Rafael Irizarry, of Harvard University and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, has been chosen as the 2017 laureate of the 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award in the Life Sciences.
Apr 4, 2017
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Web’s Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Wins The Nobel Prize Of Computing
MIT Technology Review | Tim Berners-Lee has been awarded the ACM Turing Prize. Berners-Lee says Web access is a human right-and the technology he created needs a rethink.
Apr 4, 2017
