SEATTLE, Wa., – Adaptive Biotechnologies, the leader in combining next generation sequencing (NGS) and expert bioinformatics to profile T- and B-cell receptors of the adaptive immune system, announced the appointment of Charles Sang to Senior Vice President, Diagnostics. Mr. Sang will be pivotal in leading the Company’s diagnostics business strategy for the clonoSEQ® Process which […]

San Diego – GenomeDx Biosciences announced that it has entered into seven recent agreements with leading cancer centers to provide access to GenomeDx’s genomic database and data sharing program – Decipher Genomics Resource Information Database (Decipher GRIDTM). These new cancer center collaborations, each of which was entered into in the first quarter of 2016, include […]

Cambridge, Mass. — Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudera, Google, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft to enable cloud-based access to its Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) software package. Through these collaborations the GATK Best Practices pipeline will be available to users of cloud service providers through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) […]

ARMONK, NY: IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced that Bluebee, a leading provider of high-performance genomics solutions, has deployed high-speed file transfer solutions from Aspera, an IBM company, running on the IBM Cloud and integrated directly into the Bluebee genome analytics platform. Aspera transfers reduce the end-to-end turnaround time of computational data analysis, enabling Bluebee to deliver results […]

San Diego, CA –– BioMed Realty announced that Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), a world leader in genomics focused on improving human health by unlocking the power of the genome, has signed a 10 year lease at BioMed Realty’s i3 campus, a 316,000 square foot development currently under construction in the University Towne Centre (UTC) life […]

Tucson, Ariz. –– Sunquest Information Systems Inc. announced the acquisition of GeneInsight Inc., an IT company that streamlines the analysis, interpretation and reporting of complex genetic tests. The GeneInsight platform was developed by Partners HealthCare and has been in continuous clinical use since 2005 at the Laboratory for Molecular Medicine. In 2014, Sunquest made a […]

HOUSTON, – Lasergen, Inc. is expanding its team and realigning its board of directors as it begins development of a next-generation sequencing platform to address the needs of clinical applications. The actions follow a recently announced collaboration agreement and $80 million investment from Agilent Technologies, enabling funding of both the team’s expansion and the commercialization […]

MENLO PARK, Calif., – Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., (Nasdaq:PACB) the pioneer and leader in long-read sequencing using its Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) technology, announced that scientists from the University of Washington, the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, and other institutions have published the best genome assembly of the gorilla to […]

Providence, Rhode Island, – Genomics firm Nabsys has completed a financial restructuring under the leadership of founding CEO, Barrett Bready, M.D. who returned to the company in October, 2015. In addition, members of the original technical leadership team, including Chief Technology Officer, John Oliver, Ph.D., Executive Vice President of Product Development, Steve Nurnberg, and Vice […]

DNASTAR announced that Inhibrx has entered into an agreement supporting an organization-wide site license of DNASTAR Lasergene software. This license provides access to DNASTAR software for all employees of Inhibrx. John Timmer Ph.D., the Research Director of Inhibrx commented, “After using Lasergene software in-house to meet our day to day sequence analysis needs, it became […]