• Informatics Chiefs Take on Cancer

    CIO | Nonprofit CIOs are joining forces against cancer, with informatics heads from the the Leukemia Lymphoma Society, American Cancer Society, and St. Jude meeting annually to discuss everything from their mobile strategy to their vision for the cloud.

    May 30, 2014

  • Genome Analysis in the Cloud and for the Masses

    Bio-IT World | 2014 Best Practices Winner | When the Human Genome Sequence Center (HGSC) at Baylor College of Medicine took on the sequencing and analysis of genomic data from 14,000 individuals, they knew they had a problem of scale. The solution for getting the data analyzed and out to 300 collaborators worldwide won the team and their partners at DNAnexus a 2014 Bio-IT World Best Practices Award for IT Infrastructure and High Performance Computing.

    May 30, 2014

  • China Introduces Its Own Sequencer

    ChemistryWorld | The Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG, not to be confused with BGI) and a Chinese partner company have launched a sequencing machine capable of longer read lengths than Illumina, 1/3 cheaper to manufacture, and 1/5 cheaper to operate.

    May 29, 2014

  • NextGxDx Doubles Office Space, Grows Genetic Testing Business

    Nashville Business Journal | NextGxDx is doubling its office space, after raising $2.9 million earlier this year. The Nashville, Tenn.-based company intends to serve as a one-stop-shop for doctors and hospitals to order genetic tests for their patients.

    May 29, 2014

  • Twist Bioscience Takes in Funding Round for DNA Synthesizer

    Xconomy | Twist Bioscience yesterday announced a $26 million Series B funding round, as well as a $5 million DARPA contract, to continue development of a high-throughput DNA synthesis device.

    May 28, 2014

  • Quantapore Receives $35m Investment Toward New Sequencer

    San Francisco Business Times | An ex-Ion Torrent scientist has a $35 million investment to prove his new sequencer is faster and cheaper than anything else.

    May 22, 2014

  • Advances in Genetic Engineering at the 2014 American Society for Microbiology Meeting

    Bio-IT World | Presenters at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology showed off new applications for the CRISPR system of gene editing, and projects that have re-coded bacterial genomes on a massive scale.

    May 22, 2014

  • GenePeeks Launches Sperm Donor Matching Service

    Bio-IT World News Brief | GenePeeks has opened its in silico nursery, formally launching the Matchright screening service for families who are planning to use a sperm donor to conceive.

    May 22, 2014

  • N-of-One Signs Agreement with Mayo Clinic

    Bio-IT World News Brief | Mayo Clinic and N-of-One, have signed an agreement under which N-of-One will provide Mayo Clinic with clinical interpretation information to aid in highly complex molecular diagnostics.

    May 21, 2014

  • QIAGEN Adds HGMD and Other BIOBASE Offerings, Plans Ingenuity Clinical

    Bio-IT World News Brief | QIAGEN is adding content from BIOBASE including HGMD, the human gene mutation database, to its bioinformatics offerings. HGMD and other BIOBASE solutions will provide the foundation for Ingenuity Clinical, QIAGEN's forthcoming clinical NGS decision-support solution.

    May 21, 2014