• Encouraging Inclusion In Supercomputing

    Bio-IT World | Several programs and groups are being created to address the issue of improving and optimizing the inclusion of women in the field of supercomputing.

    Jul 6, 2017

  • How To Build A Human Cell Atlas

    Nature News & Comment | Aviv Regev is a maven of hard-core biological analyses. Now she is part of an effort to map every cell in the human body.

    Jul 5, 2017

  • Illumina Announces Companion Diagnostic For Amgen Colorectal Cancer Drug

    Diagnostics World News | Illumina has announced FDA approval of its Extended RAS Panel for use on the MiSeqDx System. The next-generation sequencing kit is intended to help clinicians identify which patients are eligible for treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer with Amgen's Vectibix.

    Jun 30, 2017

  • Best Practices For Adopting An Enterprise Screening Platform

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | A few years back, AstraZeneca started on a journey to adopt and implement an enterprise-level screening platform for use company-wide. Here are some of the important milestones in that journey.

    Jun 30, 2017

  • The Jackson Laboratory, Illumina, Sinequa, And More: News From June 2017

    Bio-IT World Brief | News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including The Jackson Laboratory, Illumina, Sinequa, and more.

    Jun 29, 2017

  • Data Models To GO-FAIR

    Nature Genetics | FAIR Data is data that should be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable by both humans and machines. Nature Genetics is calling for submissions containing linked open data models that embody and extend the FAIR principles.

    Jun 28, 2017

  • New Gene-Editing Technique Could Drive Out Mosquito-Borne Disease

    Berkeley News | Scientists at UC Berkeley and UC Riverside have demonstrated a way to edit the genome of disease-carrying mosquitoes that brings us closer to suppressing them on a continental scale.

    Jun 28, 2017

  • Sequencing Healthy Patients Reveals That Many Carry Rare Genetic Disease Risks

    Bio-IT World Brief | In a new paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, along with collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine, report the results of the 4 year, NIH-funded MedSeq Project, the first-ever randomized trial conducted to examine the impact of whole genome sequencing in healthy primary care patients.

    Jun 27, 2017

  • Data Diversity In Precision Medicine

    Bio-IT World | Why diverse datasets are needed to enhance genomic interpretation and speed the progress of precision medicine.

    Jun 26, 2017