• Instant Genome Browsing Over the Web with the NextCODE Exchange

    Bio-IT World | NextCODE Health has launched a new genomic data sharing environment, in which collaborators can browse and analyze one another's whole genome datasets at single-base resolution, as well as make individual variants publicly visible for research on rare genetic disease.

    Oct 20, 2014

  • BLAST in the Amazon Cloud

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) has declared that its installation of BLAST in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace is "the easiest way to start an NCBI BLAST instance."

    Oct 17, 2014

  • PacBio Releases New Chemistry

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Pacific Biosciences, maker of the RSII sequencing instrument, has launched a new reagent kit to boost both the throughput and read length of its sequencers.

    Oct 16, 2014

  • 2015 Bio-IT World Best Practices Call for Entries Is Open

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World is now seeking entries for the 2015 Bio-IT World Best Practices competition, an awards program that for eleven years has highlighted technology innovations to enable drug discovery, biomedical research, and the practice of medicine.

    Oct 15, 2014

  • The Next Generation of DNA Vaccines Is Poised to Transform the Healthcare Landscape

    Bio-IT World | Contributed Commentary | Teri Heiland argues that advances in vaccine delivery and vector design are paving the way to safe and effective nucleic acid vaccines, which could be used against pathogens, allergies, autoimmune disease and in the growing field of cancer immunotherapy.

    Oct 13, 2014

  • Cell Culture Model of Alzheimer's First to Recapitulate Key Physiology

    Bio-IT World News Brief | A new model of Alzheimer's disease, created at the Genetics and Aging Research Unit of Massachusetts General Hospital, is the first to recreate both the "plaques" and the "tangles" that the amyloid hypothesis predicts are central to the disease's symptoms.

    Oct 13, 2014

  • Copy Number Variants in Neurological Disease

    Pacific Standard | More reliable methods for detecting large copy number variants across the whole genome are helping to reveal the importance of these mutations in explaining neurological disorders.

    Oct 10, 2014

  • Roche Purchases AbVitro's DNA Enrichment Technology for Clinical Samples

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Roche, which has been retooling its next generation sequencing strategy since beginning the closure of 454 Life Sciences last October, has acquired a new sample preparation technology for an NGS pipeline.

    Oct 10, 2014

  • Illumina Opens BaseSpace to Proteomics Data

    Bio-IT World | The OneOmics Project, a partnership between Illumina and mass spectrometry provider AB SCIEX, has produced a network of apps in the BaseSpace cloud informatics environment to store and analyze mass spec and proteomics data, the first multi-omics functions in Illumina's flagship analytics project.

    Oct 8, 2014