• Seqster, Pryzm, Apple Tracking Symptoms, Spread, And Coronavirus Data

    Bio-IT World   Last week, several groups released COVID-19 screening tools or symptom checkers to help track the spread of the virus, help people make decisions about when to receive care, and track trends. Apple and Seqster both launched symptom trackers in the United States. Covidaware.me launched internationally to track symptoms and share data, and the TwinsUK study launched a COVID-19 symptom tracker and research study using a cohort of twins.

    Apr 2, 2020

  • Oxford Nanopore, Lifebit Biotech, Sinequa, And More: News From March 2020

    Bio-IT World March featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Oxford Nanopore, Lifebit Biotech, Sinequa, and more.

    Mar 30, 2020

  • New Virtual Reality Tool Simplifies Structure-Based Drug Design

    Bio-IT World | A virtual reality (VR) platform developed by researchers at the University of Bristol is allowing chemists, computational scientists and structural biologists to collaboratively design molecules like engineers create airplane components.

    Mar 27, 2020

  • Building A File System To Keep Up With Genomics England’s Five Million Genomes Project

    Bio-IT World When David Ardley took over the platforms function at Genomics England, he inherited “quite a challenging storage environment,” he told Bio-IT World. Genomics England expected to host over 140 petabytes of genomic data by 2023, and the current storage couldn't keep up. The group chose WekaIO to build the new storage environment. 

    Mar 24, 2020