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EdgeBio Announces One Stop Sequencing

Bio-IT World | At CHI's Beyond Sequencing conference in San Francisco, EdgeBio introduced their Science as a Service offering built with CLC bio's enterprise platform, CLC Genomics Server.

NIH, Wellcome Trust Fund African Heredity and Health Project

Bio-IT World | The Wellcome Trust and the National Institutes of Health have launched a $38 million partnership focused on Africa to study how genes and the environment, including diet, work together to affect cancer, heart disease, and other diseases.

Sage Establishes Computer Modeling Program

Bio-IT World | Sage Bionetworks has received a $5m grant from the Washington Life Science Discovery Fund (LSDF) to establish a novel program to apply advanced computational modeling to the discovery and development of disease therapies.

Alex Bateman Wins 2010 Benjamin Franklin Award

Bio-IT World | The Bioinformatics Organization has named Alex Bateman, a senior investigator at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, as the winner of the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Award.

IBM Looks to Build Up

IBM | IBM is intent on keeping Moore in business for the next 15 years. IBM researchers have partnered with two Swiss institutes to understand how the latest chip cooling techniques can support a 3D chip architecture. A vertical integration of chips could overcome current limitations of Moore's Law, ensuring that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every 18 months.

Amazon’s Deepak Singh to Give Cloud Computing Keynote at Bio-IT World Expo

Bio-IT World | Deepak Singh, business development manager at Amazon Web Services, has been named as the third and final keynote speaker at the 2010 Bio-IT World Expo, where he will be presenting on cloud computing for life sciences.

IBM Algorithm Finds Data Anomalies

Forbes | IBM researchers have announced a new algorithm to help researchers look for irregular relations between data at about 100 times the speed while maintaining the same level of accuracy.

U.S. Scientists Given Access to Cloud Computing by Microsoft

New York Times | Microsoft and the National Science Foundation have agreed to offer American scientific researchers free access to the company’s new cloud computing service. A goal of the three-year project is to give scientists the computing power to cope with exploding amounts of research data.

Amazon’s Cloud Raining Gifts for 2010

January 20, 2010 | Inside the Box | Over the 2009 holiday shopping season, Amazon.com processed an estimated 73 items per second and 6.3 million items on a typical day. That may not come as much of a surprise. But what you may not know is that it’s all powered by cloud computing from Amazon Web Services (AWS). And Amazon isn’t even the biggest AWS customer, according to CEO Werner Vogels. Amazon’s Infrastructure as a Service is so far ahead in the cloud that competitors are struggling to keep pace. AWS is not about to rest on its laurels. Fortunately for the rapidly growing number of AWS users, it is aggressively innovating and improving its services. One might even say that during the 2009 holiday season, it left us some presents under the tree.

Bioinformatics Takes Lead Role in Building Biotech Startups

Mass HIgh Tech | Companies sch as Genstruct, GenomeQuest and Genedata are successfully supplying computational and informatics expertise to biotech and academic organizations across New England.



White Papers & Special Reports

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Remote Data Capture:Acquisition and Analysis
Sponsored by Oracle

See why Electronic Data Capture (EDC) is gaining traction in the pharmaceutical
clinical trials arena. Today approximately half of all clinical trials are conducted
electronically, and the figure is rapidly rising. Report includes contributions from
Oracle Health Sciences, Pfizer, PPD, and C3i.

 



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The Role of Analytics in Transforming Healthcare
Sponsored by Oracle

Sharing many of the data challenges and opportunities faced by Healthcare, the Life Sciences industry remains focused on delivering new, innovative therapies and solutions to patients in a cost effective, timely and safe way. With spiraling R&D costs, new methods such as adaptive trials, and never ending need for deep pharmacovigilance, the Life Sciences companies that effectively use analytics to explore, monitor and optimize their business will rapidly become the new leaders.

Oracle’s strategy—built upon Enterprise Health Analytics and Health Data Warehouse Foundation—provides a powerful, practical, and extensible approach to delivering the IT analytics infrastructure required to confront the worldwide healthcare challenge.



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BPM-Based Case Management Approach to Optimizing Clinical Trial Efficiency
Sponsored by Pegasystems

Business Process Management (BPM) software offers liberation in the planning and management of clinical trials today. SmartBPM provides the components for automating critical clinical trial processes ranging from protocol development and patient enrollment to site management and investigator payments. Advantages are:

  • Potentially stunning return on investment at multiple levels.
  • A 500%, or better, increase in application development time by directly executing business requirements
  • Improved customer retention
  • A 50% possible reduction in training time

Discovered is opportunity to enhance relationships with investigators, subjects, and regulators while bringing momentum to a technology-impaired study startup phase. Learn more about SmartBPM in this complimentary white paper.



Job Openings

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Software Engineer – Computational Biology Center

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center seeks an Engineer to design and develop complex data analysis systems in support of cancer genomics research projects at the Computational Biology Center. Qualified candidate will have a BA, 5+ years of software development experience and expert knowledge of Java, SQL, and HTML.

Apply: www.mskcciscareers.org.  Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Web Symposia
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Bio-IT World proudly presents the Bio-IT World Web Symposia Series!

Covering a broad array of topics within the life sciences and drug development industries, these complimentary 90-minute web symposiums provide an interactive platform to learn more about cutting-edge bio-IT topics through expert analysis and discussions.

Leveraging BPM to Increase Efficiencies in Clinical Trial Case Management
Recorded on August 3, 2010
Sponsored by: Pegasystems
Program Details | Access Recording 

Next Gen Data Management for Next Gen Life Sciences
September 8, 2010 | 1:00pm - 2:30pm EST
Sponsored by Quantum
Program Details | Register Today 

 





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