Latest Bioinformatics Stories

YONKERS, N.Y., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Nexus Legal Cash, the legal funding company, is delighted to announce a landmark sponsorship of TVTNO.org, a not for profit organization that was created to aid, comfort, advocate and provide awareness to women suffering from complications arising from transvaginal mesh and its use. TVT-NO! Foundation, created by Teresa Sawyer and her husband David Sawyer, aims to advocate and build public awareness by creating an online community of 'mesh...

BioInformatics LLC announces the release of their newest market report: The Market for Primary Cells & Stem Cell-Derived Cells: Current and Future Opportunities. Arlington, VA (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 BioInformatics LLC New Market Report – The Market for Primary Cells & Stem Cell-Derived Cells: Current and Future Opportunities (13-004) With barriers to entry low, the number of suppliers in the primary cells market continues to increase. In this study, BioInformatics LLC examines...

The Pittcon Program Committee is pleased to announce that Steven Carr, director of proteomics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, will deliver the Wallace H. Coulter Plenary Lecture at PIttcon 2014. Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) May 15, 2013 Dr. Carr is internationally recognized as a leader in the development of novel proteomics methods and in their application in biology and medicine. Dr. Carr and his group collaborate with scientists throughout the greater Broad community (Broad...

Bestselling sequencing system is now even more powerful: new workflow automation, Ion PGM(TM) chips and software to be deployed to all new and existing users CARLSBAD, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that Ion PGM(TM) now significantly outperforms its competitor on the major performance metrics for benchtop sequencing. It offers the simplest and fastest workflow, lowest cost-per-sample, and highest sensitivity for...

Cure Alzheimer’s Fund and National Institute of Mental Health join in awarding millions for Whole Genome Sequencing. Boston (PRWEB) May 09, 2013 The goal of the research project led by Dr. Rudolph Tanzi at Massachusetts General Hospital and funded through collaboration between Cure Alzheimer’s Fund (CAF) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is to complete the identification of genes affecting risk for Alzheimer’s disease. The Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) process will...

Need to adopt more cost-effective and productive methods of commercializing proprietary information has driven the bioinformatics market. The United States accounts for 52.8% of global sales making it the largest market segment while data-analysis software and analytical services comprise the strongest growing segment increasing at a 20.3% CAGR through 2017. Wellesley, MA (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 The global bioinformatics market was valued at nearly $3.2 billion in 2012 and is forecast to...

The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) is among the world leaders in sequencing the genomes of microbes, focusing on their potential applications in the fields of bioenergy and environment. As a national user facility, the DOE JGI is also focused on developing tools that more cost-effectively enable the assembly and analysis of the sequence that it, as well as other genome centers, generates. Despite tremendous advances in cost reduction and throughput of DNA...

Exemplar LIMS utilized for Mount Sinai CLIA-certified Genomics Core Facility employing diverse NGS platforms BALTIMORE, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Exemplar LIMS(TM) has been selected as the lab management solution for the Genomics Core Facility at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. Sapio's LIMS system will track multiple next-generation sequencing (NGS) platform workflows from request through secondary analysis. The Mount Sinai Genomics Core Facility is a CLIA-certified...

Convey and Nimbix to give away $25,000 of processing time on hybrid-core cluster, allowing qualified applicants to try accelerated genomics workflows for free. Richardson, TX (PRWEB) April 30, 2013 Convey Computer today announced that Nimbix, a leader in accelerated high-performance cloud computing, has partnered with Convey to expand its Convey hybrid-core (HC) infrastructure, as part of “The Accelerated Genomics Cloud” (TAGC) promotion, which provides free runtime for qualified...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NextBio today announced a multi-year collaboration with Sanofi (NYSE:SNY) aimed at using NextBio Clinical to incorporate patient omics and clinical data into Sanofi's drug research and development, as part of Sanofi's Translational Medicine for Patients (TM4P) program. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130402/SF86976LOGO) NextBio will provide Sanofi with the NextBio Clinical platform for aggregation, standardization and...