• Tute Genomics Shares Genetic Variants Database on Google Genomics

    Bio-IT World | Google Genomics and Tute Genomics have announced that a Tute database of 8.5 billion annotations of genetic variants is publicly available through Google Genomics. The database will be hosted on Google Genomics, and can be queried at regular Google Genomics query rates.

    Mar 12, 2015

  • 23andMe Enters The Drug Business Just As Apple Changes It

    Forbes | 23andMe CEO and Founder Anne Wojcicki 23andMe, the Google-backed personal genetics startup, will no longer just sell tests to consumers, or genetic data to pharmaceutical companies. This morning, it announced that it plans to start inventing medicines itself. It's not just talk. The company has hired Richard Scheller, who led drug discovery at Genentech.

    Mar 12, 2015

  • Ewan Birney, Rolf Apweiler appointed Joint Directors of EMBL-EBI

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Ewan Birney and Rolf Apweiler have been appointed Joint Directors of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory – European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). They will assume their new roles with effect from 1 July 2015. Professor Dame Janet Thornton steps down after 14 years as the EMBL-EBI director.  

    Mar 11, 2015

  • Merck Serono Signs Up with Illumina's Universal Oncology Test

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina has brought another major pharmaceutical partner on board for its Universal Oncology Test program, an effort to build a next-generation sequencing-based gene panel covering all major cancer-related mutations that could be used to select personalized therapies.

    Mar 10, 2015

  • Unstructured Data and the Discovery Problem

    Bio-IT World | Tomorrow the Content Analyst Company will announce the general availability of Cerebrant, a SaaS-based discovery platform designed to enable subject matter experts in any industry to gain rapid insight into unstructured content.

    Mar 9, 2015

  • A Visit to the Digital Brain Library

    Ars Technica | The Digital Brain Library — whose physical collection of donated brains is currently housed at a laboratory in UC San Diego — aims to provide online access to virtual images of at least 1,000 unique human brains photographed at single-micron resolution.

    Mar 9, 2015

  • On the Case at Mount Sinai It’s Dr. Data

    New York Times | Jeffrey Hammerbacher, who started Facebook's data science team, now uses his skills to improve medical treatments, a switch inspired by his own health crisis.

    Mar 9, 2015