• GA4GH Launches ELIXIR Partnership, Diverse Driver Projects

    Bio-IT World  In February, the 20th European nation signed the European Declaration, an effort to sequence and provide transnational access to at least one million human genomes by 2022—putting to rest any lingering doubts about the breadth of our data sharing challenges and the importance of international standards. The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health is at the forefront of the work.  

    May 9, 2019

  • AI In Real-World Drug Discovery: The Experts Weigh In

    Bio-IT World | An "AI in Practice" keynote panel session at the recent Bio-IT World Congress & Expo in Boston discusses the efficiencies machine learning is creating in drug development, as well as the overall AI strategy companies are still formulating.

    May 8, 2019

  • Open Science Needs A Do-Over

    Bio-IT World | In his keynote presentation during opening ceremonies of the 18th Annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, John Wilbanks, chief commons officer of Merck spinoff Sage Bionetworks, explained how the business of research has traditionally focused on producing academic papers, limiting the growth of scientific knowledge to "massive incrementalism" around a succession of magic-bullet solutions—microassays, human genome project, robotics and artificial intelligence and, most recently, open science.

    May 6, 2019

  • Imagining A World On FHIR

    Bio-IT World | Achieving the aims of value-based healthcare presumes the free flow of all kinds of data, something the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) draft standard is pushing towards.

    May 2, 2019

  • Thermo Fisher Scientific, LifeArc, Pure Storage, & More: News From April 2019

    Bio-IT World | April featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Thermo Fisher Scientific, LifeArc, Pure Storage, and more.

    May 1, 2019

  • A Programmer Solved A 20-Year-Old, Forgotten Crypto Puzzle

    WIRED | A self-taught coder dedicated a CPU core to performing continuous computations for three years to crack the puzzle, beating a competing team by mere days.

    Apr 30, 2019