• The RGC UK Biobank Consortium Data Delivery And Cohort Browser

    Bio-IT World | The Regeneron Genetics Center has undertaken the exome sequencing and analysis of 500,000 samples from the UK Biobank, using the DNAnexus Platform to host the dataset and run Regeneron’s software pipeline. To increase the value to the RGC UKB consortium, Regeneron and DNAnexus partnered to construct a combined database of the UKB genomic and phenotypic data to explore through an innovative user interface.

    Jun 28, 2019

  • AbbVie, Discngine Collaborate On Structure-Based Drug Discovery Explorer

    Bio-IT World | Although wildly used, rational structure-based drug design techniques are far from being applied to their fullest potential. AbbVie and Discngine addressed the pitfalls by co-developing a web-based structural knowledge management solution called 3decision.

    Jun 26, 2019

  • Sentieon's 'Faster/Cheaper' Genomics Tools

    Bio-IT World | Sentieon's DNAseq and TNseq software, are making waves in the life sciences, creating a "drop in replacement" that is a faster and cheaper alternative to the industry standard for secondary analysis in next-generation sequencing (NGS) data processing while producing the industry standard results.

    Jun 25, 2019

  • Tracking The Clinical And Preclinical Progress In Targeting Membrane Proteins

    Bio-IT World | G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), ion channels, and transporters represent some of the most important drug target classes across a wide range of diseases. According to Catherine Hutchings, progress in targeting these membrane proteins requires a recognition of not only what works, but also what doesn't.

    Jun 24, 2019

  • Officials Say They Lack Authority To Halt CRISPR Babies Plan In Russia

    STAT | Two influential leaders in science for the first time publicly condemned a Russian biologist who said he plans to produce gene-edited babies but conceded that it was beyond their organizations’ authority to halt him from doing so.

    Jun 24, 2019