• Adaptive Biotechnologies, Microsoft Launch Immune Response Trial For COVID-19

    Bio-IT World Brief | Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft today announced they will leverage their existing partnership mapping population-wide adaptive immune responses to diseases at scale to study COVID-19 in a clinical trial to launch in April.

    Mar 20, 2020

  • BioTeam, NVIDIA, Globus, And More Offer Free Tools To Support Coronavirus Research

    Bio-IT World | Groups across the Bio-IT World community are offering their services and tools for free to teams working on coronavirus diagnostics and treatments. Offerings from BioTeam, Globus, NVIDIA, the Broad Institute, Rescale, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure all aim to speed work done on diagnostics and treatment.

    Mar 20, 2020

  • Matthew Trunnell On Data, Silos, COVID-19, And Advice To Himself 15 Years Ago

    Bio-IT World  TRENDS FROM THE TRENCHES—Stan Gloss and Matthew Trunnell discuss how their views of data have changed over the past two decades, what technologies provided tipping points, where the next leaps will happen, and what we may have done differently with the benefit of hindsight. And, of course, a little bit about coronavirus. 

    Mar 19, 2020

  • Summit Supercomputer Models Coronavirus 'Spike'

    Bio-IT World | As scientists across the globe bring their expertise to bear on the coronavirus pandemic, researchers in Tennessee are bringing big compute. Researchers are using Summit, the world’s fastest supercomputer housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), to identify compounds that may effectively combat the virus. Summit is powered by 9,216 IBM Power9 CPUs and over 27,000 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs.

    Mar 12, 2020

  • How Digital Technology Will Transform Every Part of Life Sciences in 2020

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Achieving a single view of the patient has been a key challenge for the life sciences industry, given the inherently siloed nature of organizations in the sector. However, as patient centricity increasingly becomes the crux of all life science organizations, the pace of digitization within the industry has picked up significantly.

    Mar 9, 2020