• Washington University Rolls Out Open Source Epigenomics Browser

    Bio-IT World | Coinciding with the completion of an early phase of the NIH-funded Roadmap Epigenomics Project, a team at Washington University in St. Louis has created a genome browser with added capabilities to deal with epigenetic data.

    Sep 8, 2014

  • Edico Genome Makes First Sale of NGS Processor

    Bio-IT World | Edico Genome, which claims its DRAGEN chip can assemble a whole human genome and call variants in as little as 20 minutes, has made its first sale of the device to prenatal testing company Sequenom, which will use the DRAGEN to search for genetic disorders in fetal DNA samples.

    Sep 4, 2014

  • modENCODE Project Reveals Evolutionary Patterns of Gene Activation(2)

    New York Times | As the modENCODE project catalogues the transcription factors and other regulatory elements at work in fruit fly and worm cells at various stages of development, scientists are learning that many of the genetic regulatory elements at work in humans have deep evolutionary roots.

    Sep 2, 2014

  • New NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy Straddles a Fine Line

    Bio-IT World News Brief | This week, the NIH issued its long awaited Genomic Data Sharing Policy, which encourages researchers to obtain the broadest possible patient consent for open data sharing, while at the same time considering new privacy measures to protect vulnerable patient populations.

    Aug 29, 2014

  • August News and Product Briefs

    Bio-IT World | News and product releases from around the industry, including a trial to support broad genotyping of tumors, and new annotation tools from Appistry.

    Aug 29, 2014

  • Berg and the Pursuit of the Body's Hidden Drugs

    Bio-IT World | Berg, a Cambridge-based pharma company, believes human cells may be harboring compounds that could be used to treat diabetes, cancer, and neurological diseases. To find them, they're handing tissue samples over to their in-house data mining platform, Interrogative Biology.

    Aug 28, 2014

  • DNA Barcoding to Combat Mass Food Fraud

    Chemical & Engineering News | Armed with new technologies to identify food products on a molecular level, regulators are combating the multi-billion dollar international practice of food fraud.

    Aug 26, 2014

  • Updates from the Genome in a Bottle Consortium

    Bio-IT World | At the Next Generation Dx Summit in Washington, DC, Justin Zook of the National Institute of Standards and Technology discussed the pace of progress at the Genome in a Bottle Consortium, including new reference materials and the project's role in FDA evaluation of next-generation sequencing technologies.

    Aug 25, 2014

  • Illumina to Support 'Companion Therapeutics' in Oncology

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Illumina today announced collaborations with AstraZeneca, Sanofi, and Janssen Biotech, to participate in patient stratification for the development of new cancer drugs by offering a multi-gene panel that covers key cancer mutations.

    Aug 21, 2014