• PacBio's Juliet Minor Variant Software

    Bio-IT World At PacBio’s SMRT scientific symposium and developers meeting last week held at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, Lance Hepler, with PacBio, announced three apps coming in the next SMRT Analysis release: minor variants, structural variation, and multiplexed microbe WGS.

    May 8, 2017

  • NIH Grant Limits Rile Biomedical Research Community

    Nature News & Comment | Scientists are split over whether limiting grant support to individuals will help young researchers or hurt collaboration.

    May 5, 2017

  • 2017 Bio-IT World Best Of Show People's Choice Award Contenders

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World has announced the 2017 Best of Show competition with the Bio-IT World People’s Choice award. The four awards named by the judges and the People’s Choice Award will be announced at a live event on the Bio-IT World Expo floor at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, May 24.

    May 4, 2017

  • Anniversary Agenda: A Preview of #BioIT17

    Bio-IT World At the end of this month, Bio-IT World celebrates a milestone: the 15th anniversary of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. Fifteen years after we launched the event, it has grown into a community that we are proud of, a community of clever, innovative people working from all sides on the problems affecting life sciences. But we’re excited about more than just a champagne toast at this year’s celebration. Our 15th anniversary program in Boston, May 23-25, might be the best yet.

    May 3, 2017

  • Heymann and Bhowmik Launch Converge Boston’s Latest Venture Firm

    Xconomy | Boston's tech investing landscape has changed a lot in the past couple of years, with a wave of new early-stage funds popping up. That activity continued this week with the unveiling of Converge.

    May 3, 2017

  • Science Wins Reprieve In US Budget Deal

    Nature News & Comment | Congress gives National Institutes of Health a big boost and avoids cuts to research agencies sought by Trump.

    May 2, 2017

  • Personalis, Dovetail Genomics, DataDirect Networks, And More: News From April 2017

    Bio-IT World Brief | News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Personalis, Dovetail Genomics, DataDirect Networks, and more.

    Apr 27, 2017

  • BioRxiv Preprint Server Gets Cash Boost From Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

    Nature News & Comment | Money will be used to develop open-source platform and help put articles in web-friendly formats.

    Apr 26, 2017