• Chinese Government Bans Sequence-Based Testing

    Forbes Asia | The Chinese government has banned domestic hospitals and other medical and health institutions from providing genetic tests to customers, specifically mentioning prenatal DNA tests, raising questions about the future of Chinese sequencing.

    Mar 5, 2014

  • Broad Releases Updates to GenePattern

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The Broad Institute has released an updated version of GenePattern, the Institute’s open-source genome sequence analysis software with user-requested fixes and updates including a new user interface.

    Mar 5, 2014

  • J. Craig Venter's Latest Venture Has Ambitions Across Human Lifespan

    Bio-IT World | J. Craig Venter today announced the launch of a new company, Human Longevity, Inc., that aims to promote healthy aging by building the world's largest and most wide-reaching genome sequencing center.

    Mar 4, 2014

  • PacBio's Rise from the Hype Ashes

    Xconomy | PacBio seduced investors with a promise of revolution, Xconomy's Luke Timmerman says. Their first predictions failed, but now PacBio is making a name for itself

    Mar 4, 2014

  • Accelrys’ ScienceCloud Offers Route to Cloud Computing, Collaboration

    Bio-IT World | On the heels of its acquisition announcement, Accelrys launched the ScienceCloud last month, a SaaS-based information management and collaboration workspace hosted by BT Global. ScienceCloud currently boasts five applications, including a Mobile Data Capture App just announced this morning.

    Mar 3, 2014

  • Google Joins Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, Proposes API

    Google Research Blog | Yesterday on the Google Research Blog, the company announced that it has joined the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health

    Feb 28, 2014

  • Internet2 for George Washington University to Facilitate Genomics Work

    Washington Business Journal | George Washington University is stepping up their genome analysis thanks to a 100-gigabit-per-second link to the Internet2 Network.

    Feb 28, 2014

  • Genome in a Bottle Benchmark Published

    Bio-IT World News Brief | The Genome in a Bottle Consortium benchmark has been published in Nature Biotechnology, revealing how the arbitrated between different data sets when deciding which calls were accurate, and spells out the reasons for excluding certain genomic regions.

    Feb 26, 2014

  • Quick NGS to Save a Life

    Omics! Omics! Blog | On his Omics! Omics! blog, Keith Robison recounts a diagnostic odyssey shared at AGBT, that raises some interesting questions.

    Feb 26, 2014