BOSTON — Children’s Hospital Boston today announced the launch of the CLARITY Challenge, a $25,000 competition intended to advance standards for genomic analysis and interpretation and the reporting of clear, actionable results to clinicians and patients. The competition marks the first time a healthcare institution has sent out a broad call for the development of […]
REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, the USA, The Netherlands and Spaintoday report the discovery of variants in the human genome that associate with levels of thyroid stimulating hormone and risk of thyroid cancer.The paper ‘Discovery of common variants associated with low TSH levels and thyroid cancer risk’ is […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Complete Genomics Inc. announced today that the Journal of Computational Biology has published online the company’s paper describing some of the computational methods that enable it to produce highly-accurate whole human genome sequencing data. The paper is available at https://www.liebertonline.com/doi/full/10.1089/cmb.2011.0201. Complete Genomics performs whole human genome sequencing using proprietary biochemistry based […]
BRANFORD, Connecticut – The Center for Human Genetics and Laboratory Medicine Dr. Klein and Dr. Rost, and IMGM Laboratories, both located in Martinsried Germany, reported using the Roche GS Junior Benchtop System to sequence clinically relevant exons and identify genomic variations in solid tumors treated with an antibody-based medicine. This sequencing approach, easily expanded to […]
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & ST. LOUIS–MOgene, LC, a leading genomics service provider located in St. Louis, is implementing Fluidigm Access Array™ sample preparation technology for its targeted resequencing customers. The Access Array System is the only system that prepares amplicons for resequencing without the need for any additional library preparation while providing the lowest […]
ST. LOUIS– Appistry, Inc., the world’s best company at solving complex, data intensive problems, today announced the opening of its new corporate headquarters in The Art of Living Building—located in downtown St. Louis. The relocation signifies the growth and momentum achieved by Appistry in 2011 as the company focused new efforts on solving Big Data […]
MADISON, Wisconsin – Hereditary hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder in humans. A German research team led by Ingo Kurth from the Institute of Human Genetics at the University Hospital Jena, Germany, used a number of different methods, including Roche’s NimbleGen Custom Sequence Capture 385K array to identify the gene mutated in the […]
LEXINGTON, Mass.–RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, today announced the publication of data from a collaboration with the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) and Prognosys Biosciences that further validates RainDance’s “hotspot” approach for detecting low prevalence somatic mutations in heterogeneous tumor samples. The publication, entitled “Detection of Low Prevalence Somatic Mutations […]
Brower Piven Encourages Investors Who Have Losses in Excess of $100,000 From Investment in Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. to Inquire About the Lead Plaintiff Position in Securities Fraud Class Action Lawsuit Before the February 27, 2012 Lead Plaintiff Deadline Brower Piven, A Professional Corporation announces that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in […]
KIEL, Germany & AARHUS, Denmark–Today, CLC bio and German high performance computing experts, SciEngines, announced a collaboration to completely integrate CLC bio’s server- and desktop-based sequence analysis software with SciEngines’ FPGA-based RIVYERA platform for massively parallel computing. Initially, the system will feature implementations of nucleotide-nucleotide BLAST (BLASTn), protein-protein BLAST (BLASTp), and Smith-Waterman. More algorithms will […]
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