• Precision for Medicine Transforms Big Data Into Actionable Information

    Bio-IT World | Precision for Medicine will formally launch its immuno-analytics platform solution this month, the latest addition to its PATH suite of tools for contending with big 'omics data even when working with small sample sizes.

    Mar 2, 2016

  • February News and Product Briefs

    Bio-IT World | The latest products and announcements from around the industry, including the introduction of Arvados to Microsoft Azure, and an online solution for metagenomics through One Codex.

    Mar 1, 2016

  • New CRISPR-Like Defense System Discovered in Giant Viruses

    The Atlantic | The bizarre Mimivirus has become even more perplexing, as scientists uncover a genetic element called MIMIVRE, highly analogous to CRISPR, that it uses to fight off smaller viruses.

    Feb 29, 2016

  • NanoString Reveals Novel Sequencing Method for Cancer Assays

    Bio-IT World | NanoString Technologies, a Seattle company with a small but comfortable niche in automated genetic analysis, is preparing to make the leap into DNA and RNA sequencing, with a highly novel process it calls Hyb and Seq.

    Feb 29, 2016

  • Obama Is Using the Bully Pulpit to Set Patient Data Free

    Forbes | At a White House meeting on the President's Precision Medicine Initiative, open data, shared with patients and between centers, is the centerpiece of a national plan.

    Feb 25, 2016

  • Verily, Vanderbilt Named to Launch U.S. Precision Medicine Pilot

    Reuters | The National Institutes of Health on Thursday named Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, as advisor to Nashville's Vanderbilt University in a pilot program to launch the Precision Medicine Initiative outlined by President Barack Obama last year.

    Feb 25, 2016

  • Illumina Sues Oxford Nanopore Technologies Over Composition of Nanopores

    Bio-IT World | Oxford Nanopore Technologies, creator of the world's first and only nanopore sequencer, has found itself the target of a lawsuit by genomics giant Illumina, which does not make a nanopore sequencer but does license two patents related to a very specific iteration of the technology.

    Feb 24, 2016

  • Toward Ubiquitous Computational Life Sciences

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Wolfgang Gentzsch of UberCloud argues that the expansion of software containers for life sciences applications is moving biology and medicine closer to a state of 'ubiquitous computing,' where compute infrastructure becomes all but invisible to most end users.

    Feb 23, 2016

  • Diabetes Diagnoses Lead to DIY Glucose Monitoring and Insulin Production

    New York Times | Parents of children with diabetes have led an egalitarian push for improved technology to monitor the condition, and to even develop cheaper insulin.

    Feb 23, 2016

  • DDN Introduces Solution for Enterprise-Wide Mobile Data Access

    Bio-IT World News Brief | DDN, creator of the WOS object storage platform for simplified data storage and access at multi-petabyte scale, has launched a new product for enterprise data governance as employees access files at home and through mobile devices.

    Feb 22, 2016