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  1. THIS WEEK IN BIO-IT

    1. Beyond Nanopores: News and Notes from AGBT

      Explore Bio-IT World (Feb 20 2012)

      Bio-IT World | Oxford Nanopore may have stolen the show at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting* last week, but they weren’t the only company showcasing advances in next generation technologies. (Read Full Article)

      Comment

    2. Oxford Strikes First in DNA Sequencing Nanopore Wars

      Explore Bio-IT World (Feb 17 2012) Next-Gen Data

      Breaking a near total vow of silence after three years in stealth mode, Oxford Nanopore chief technology officer Clive Brown offered stunning details of the UK firm's nanopore next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology today, including a sequencing device on a USB stick, viral genomes decoded in single runs, and the prospect of the $1,000 genome in less than an hour as early as next year.

      (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Oxford Nanopore

    3. 2012 Franklin Award Accepting Nominations

      Explore Bio-IT World (Feb 17 2012) Bio-IT , Clinical Trial Informatics

      Bio-IT World | Nominations are being accepted for the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award  for Open Access in the Life Sciences. The award is a humanitarian/bioethics award presented annually by Bioinformatics.org an individual who has, in his or her practice, promoted free and open access to the materials and methods used in the life sciences. (Read Full Article)

      Comment

    4. Pharma Lit: Elsevier Serves Pharma with Acquisitions of Ariadne, Quosa

      Explore Bio-IT World (Feb 16 2012) Bio-IT , Discovery Informatics

      Bio-IT World | “We have a history of servicing life sciences and drug discovery/drug development in the pharma industry,” says Alexander van Boetzelaer, managing director of corporate markets for the Dutch publishing giant Elsevier. But while that history is based largely on serving up traditional scientific literature, the needs of the pharma industry are changing, and Elsevier has made several acquisitions to meet those needs. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   FDA   Elsevier   Kevin Davies, Ph.D.

    5. Which Grid Engine?

      Explore Bio-IT World (Feb 15 2012) Bio-IT , Clinical Trial Informatics , Discovery Informatics , IT Infrastructure

      Bio-IT World | In December 2010, Oracle announced that Grid Engine (a very popular life science cluster scheduler and distributed resource manager that Oracle inherited via its purchase of Sun Microsystems) would no longer be freely available as an open-source product. Oracle's decision to make Grid Engine available only to commercially licensed customers left a large community of scientific and high performance computing users questioning the viability of their long term technical planning and HPC roadmaps. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   PerkinElmer   Oracle

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  3. ELSEWHERE IN THE PRESS

    1. Drug-proof 'pig MRSA' makes leap from livestock to humans

      Explore Mirror Online (13 hours, 4 min ago) Medical Informatics , Next-Gen Data

      A potentially deadly form of MRSA has jumped from farm animals to humans - after we gave it to them. The strain has developed resistance to modern drugs while living in farm animals reared with antibiotics. Dr. Paul Keim, of the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Arizona, said: “We can’t blame nature or the germs.

      (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   European Union   Translational Genomics Research Institute

    2. Chinese firm, UC Davis sign genomics lab deal

      Explore The Sacramento Bee (Feb 20 2012) Discovery Informatics , Next-Gen Data

      UC Davis signed a "master agreement" Friday with Chinese firm BGI to establish a major genomics lab on the university's Sacramento medical campus.

      (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   UC Davis   Beijing Genomics Institute

    3. Stanford Prof's Two Things Big Companies Can Learn From Start-ups

      Explore Forbes.com (Feb 19 2012) Business & Market Insights

      Stanford?s Perry Klebahn knows start-ups and big companies. And based on co-running the??Stanford Institute of Design?s Launchpad??Class ? that teaches Stanford students about start-ups, Klebahn has??two great ideas for what large organizations can learn from them. In a February 14th interview, Klebahn??summarized his career before??Stanford as ?doing start-ups in the first half of my career ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Stanford

    4. Biotech Investment vs Research

      Explore Bio-IT World (Feb 17 2012) Business & Market Insights

      Xconomy | The biotech investment model is changing. Venture capitalists are no longer willing to wait for a return on their investment while science does its thing. There is a trend toward very small, single-project companies that are more compelling to big company buyers. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Parexel International

    5. Open Source May be the Answer for Pharma and Biotech

      Explore xconomy.com (Feb 17 2012) Bio-IT , Discovery Informatics

      In his State of the Union Speech President Obama called for support for ‘the same kind of research that led to the computer chip and the Internet.’ He rightfully implies that for several decades now the innovation story has been primarily focused on computers, software and communication. As the power of science, technology, and free [...] (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   FDA   Seattle   Bristol-Myers Squibb

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  5. ELSEWHERE IN THE PRESS

    1. PerkinElmer Announces Collaboration with Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository to Improve Next Generation Sequencing Sample Access

      Explore finance.yahoo.com (Feb 17 2012) IT Infrastructure , Next-Gen Data

      PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced that the Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository (RUCDR), the largest cell and DNA biobank in the United States, has adopted the Company’s technologies for automation of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) sample prepara...

      (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   USA   PerkinElmer   PerkinElmer , Inc.

    2. IBM's Anjul Bhambhri on What Is a Data Scientist?

      Explore Forbes.com (Feb 16 2012) Bio-IT , Drug Safety , IT Infrastructure

      To continue my series of articles on "What is a Data Scientist?" I interviewed Anjul Bhambhri, vice president of development for big data projects at IBM, about her vision for creating business value from big data. "The enterprises that will achieve a competitive edge and win will have a blend of a healthy data-science culture, enterprising data scientists who can bend the ear of C-level decision makers, and the right combination of technology that will surface the data that make sense in the context of the business," says Bhambhri. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   IBM

    3. Red Hat Cloud Boss Blasts VMware Over Openness

      Explore Wired News (Feb 16 2012) Bio-IT , IT Infrastructure

      Scott Crenshaw, Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat?s Cloud Business Unit, during a Webcast today called VMware?s claims of openness for its cloud solutions bogus. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   EMC   VMware

    4. Behind the Biogen-Stromedix Deal

      Explore Bio-IT World (Feb 16 2012) Business & Market Insights

      Forbes | Earlier this week Biogen Idec acquired Stromedix, a biotechnology company focused on innovative therapies for fibrosis and organ failure, for up to $526m. Two of the venture capitalists behind Stromedix talk about the startup's history and the path to Biogen. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Biogen Idec

    5. EMC teams with Altos on cloud venture

      Explore Business News (Feb 16 2012) Business & Market Insights , IT Infrastructure

      EMC Corp. and French company Altos are teaming up to establish what they are calling a strategic alliance for open cloud computing, in which Atos will launch a company called Canopy to provide cloud services, Mass High Tech reports. EMC and its subsidiary VMware will offer the technology to drive three pieces of the cloud as part of the alliance. Canopy will be based in Europe and, as the primary shareholder in the new company, Atos will name its CEO, according to the release, MHT reports. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   EMC   VMware

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