• Google Cloud To Host Accenture’s INTIENT Life Sciences Platform

    Bio-IT World Accenture and Google Cloud today announced that Google Cloud will be the cloud technology provider for Accenture’s INTIENT life sciences industry platform.

    Jan 28, 2020

  • A Computer Scientist Reports On Life In Pharma R&D

    Bio-IT World | “I think that pharma R&D is a fascinating place for a computer scientist to work!” So says Felipe Albrecht, Bioinformatics and Computer Scientist, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), at Roche Diagnostics GmbH. Albrecht is a data scientist at heart, believing that data drives all science. And his degrees are all in computer science. But when it came to applying that passion, he turned to molecular biology.

    Jan 27, 2020

  • Leveraging the Power of Data and Collaboration to Change Healthcare

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Recently David Levine had the opportunity to participate in a Congressional Briefing with Phillip K. Chang, Chief Medical Officer at the University of Kentucky Healthcare; Patricia Garcia Sullivan, Chief Quality Officer at Penn Medicine; and Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02). The briefing revealed how data, quantitative analytics, best practices, and empirical metrics are affecting real change across an ever-evolving healthcare landscape.

    Jan 24, 2020

  • Building A Commons: How Bristol-Myers Squibb And BioTeam Used Gen3 To Build A New Data Paradigm

    Bio-IT World | Bristol-Myers Squibb wanted a fundamental change in how the big pharma approached data. They wanted a tool that ensured authentication and authorization, while empowering users to find well-characterized data they need, and a catalog all of the applications, tools, and analyses in use. With help from BioTeam, they found a solution in a custom Gen3 data commons.

    Jan 22, 2020

  • Franklin Award Opens Call For Nominations, Seeks Diversity

    Bio-IT World  The call for nominations is now open for the 2020 Benjamin Franklin Award, the award given annually recognizing open access in the life sciences. Nominations can be made by any member of Bioinformatics.org, a free membership organization. The organizers hope that more nominations will better reflect the diversity of the life sciences community.

    Jan 20, 2020