• Ewan Birney To Lead Global Alliance For Genomics and Health

    Bio-IT World | The Global Alliance for Genomics in Health (GA4GH) has selected Ewan Birney, Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), to steward its member organizations in producing solutions for sharing genomic and clinical data. Birney took to his blog to address the new position.

    Oct 14, 2016

  • Among the Multitude: A Look At The Complexity Of Diversity In Genetics

    Bio-IT World | Genetics research is not as diverse as one would hope. Present discussions on this issue have led to the launching of multiple initiatives, including those from Illumina and 23andMe this week, whose goal is to develop the data pool in Africa.

    Oct 13, 2016

  • IBMs Cleversafe Storage Platform Is Becoming A Cloud Service

    Computerworld | The idea with IBM's new Cloud Object Storage service: If dispersing data among storage nodes can make it more secure and less prone to loss, spreading it across far-flung cloud data centers make it even more so.

    Oct 13, 2016

  • IBM Workers to Use Watson Supercomputer to Find Cancer Treatments

    Fortune | IBM announced that it will let its American workers use the Watson supercomputer technology in 2017 to find appropriate cancer treatments.

    Oct 12, 2016

  • PierianDx Acquires Tute Genomics

    Bio-IT World Brief  PierianDx today announced the acquisition of Tute Genomics, a genomics software company based in Provo, UT, further increasing consolidation in the genomics space

    Oct 12, 2016

  • Labfolder Deployed Across Max Planck Society

    Bio-IT World Brief | Labfolder and the Max Planck Society today announced a licensing agreement to provide up to 11,000 Max Planck scientists from all disciplines ranging from physics, chemistry, life sciences and humanities with labfolder’s laboratory data management digital platform.

    Oct 11, 2016

  • Q&A Confirming Next-Gen Sequencing Results with Sanger

    The Scientist | Ambry Genetics CEO Aaron Elliott discusses his team's recent analysis of 20,000 clinical next-generation sequencing panels.

    Oct 11, 2016

  • Panasas, HGST Offer iRODS Solution

    Bio-IT World Brief | Yesterday Panasas and HGST announced a solution using iRODS to link the Panasas ActiveStor storage system with HGST’s object storage Active Archive System.

    Oct 7, 2016

  • Bill Gates Succumbs to Moonshot Madness

    Omics! Omics! Blog | Keith Robison comments on what he calls a misguided call for a moonshot in human disease from Bill Gates. Gates recently laid out four goals for disease prevention he believes can be attained in the next decade.

    Oct 7, 2016

  • Biotech Billionaire Backs Company Geared At Ending Food Allergies

    Forbes | Before Brands, a business that wants to prevent food allergies before they even start, launched this morning with $13.1 million in funding from backers including Gurnet Point, run by biotech billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli.

    Oct 6, 2016