• Cloudera raises $900M, Intel Partnership

    ReadWrite | Cloudera just raised $900 million in its IPO, and is partnering with Intel. Intel dumped its own home-grown Hadoop distribution for Cloudera's version.

    Mar 31, 2014

  • Google Flu Trends Suffers from Inflammatory Response

    New York Times Blog | In the wake of a Science article criticizing the track record of Google Flu Trends, Steve Lohr speaks to both the article's authors and Google's engineers to understand what went wrong.

    Mar 28, 2014

  • March News and Product Briefs

    Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including developments in gene therapy, mobile chemical modeling, and more.

    Mar 27, 2014

  • Toby Bloom on the New York Genome Center’s Crystallizing Clinical Vision

    Bio-IT World | With almost a year behind her, Toby Bloom, the New York Genome Center’s Deputy Science Director, Informatics, talks about the Center’s new projects, its clinical vision, and her dreams of a “be-all, end-all” multimodal database for genomic and clinical data.

    Mar 26, 2014

  • Bina Rebrands Offerings, Adds Bina Desktop to Lineup

    Bio-IT World | Bina Technologies announced the details of their new desktop offering, Bina Desktop, this morning, along with a rebranding of their products.

    Mar 25, 2014

  • DNA Mugshots

    Nature News | In a paper in PLOS Genetics, researchers showed how 24 gene variants could construct crude 3-D models of a face.

    Mar 24, 2014

  • 23andMe Pursues Health Research in the Shadow of the FDA

    Bio-IT World | Four months after the FDA barred 23andMe from reporting genetic disease risks to customers, the in-house research team insists that "the mission of the company remains on health."

    Mar 24, 2014

  • Remembering Pat McGovern

    Bio-IT World | Patrick McGovern died on March 19, at Stanford Hospital, in Palo Alto, California. Among his many important achievements Pat McGovern was the Godfather of Bio-IT World.

    Mar 21, 2014

  • 2014 Bio-IT World Expo Preview

    Bio-IT World | This year’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston (April 29-May 1, 2014) will once again play host to thousands of industry and academic colleagues discussing big data, security, cloud computing, trends in IT infrastructure, omics technologies, high-performance computing, data analytics and precision medicine, over three days, across 13 tracks.

    Mar 20, 2014