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Neil Versel is an editor at GenomeWeb. He covers the life science and healthcare informatics markets.

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Sep 23, 2020

Center for Genomic Regulation's COVID-19 Viral Beacon Digs Into Thousands of SARS-CoV-2 Genomes

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The center, based in Barcelona, Spain, has built a search tool for quickly locating genetic variants and associated metadata for the novel coronavirus.

Sep 22, 2020

Google DeepVariant Boosts Accuracy of Indel Calls in PacBio Long Reads

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In a PrecisionFDA challenge, DeepVariant calls of PacBio HiFi reads topped 99 percent precision and recall for SNVs and indels, bringing HiFi in line with Illumina. 

Sep 18, 2020

Kaiser Permanente Taps BC Platforms to Analyze Biobank, Clinical Data

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The integration on the Microsoft Azure cloud is helping Kaiser make its vast genomics dataset available to a wider pool of researchers.

Sep 09, 2020

Machine Learning Tool Enables Analysis of Complex, Polygenic Phenotypes With Epistastic Interactions

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By employing distributed computational resources and a novel algorithm, the VariantSpark technology is able to process a trillion data points in 15 hours. 

Sep 02, 2020

Mount Sinai Bioinformaticians Identify Drug Candidates to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Replication

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A computational method, coupled with PCR analysis and RNA-seq, helped researchers pinpoint several drugs that could be repurposed to fight COVID-19.

Aug 21, 2020

UK Biobank Taps DNAnexus, AWS to Build Informatics Platform

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UK Biobank hopes cloud-based analytics tools will streamline WGS analysis and open the database to researchers who don't otherwise have access to bioinformatics infrastructure.

Aug 18, 2020

CHOP Automates Phenotyping of Epilepsy Patients, Heralding 'EMR Genomics' Era

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In a newly published paper, CHOP researchers described a method for rebuilding patient histories en masse to create gene-specific "footprints" in clinical records.

Aug 13, 2020

Weill Cornell Using $1.5M NIH Grant to Predict Severity of COVID-19 Cases

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The grant will allow Weill Cornell to study genetic, social, and clinical factors that might explain why COVID-19 disproportionally affects minorities in the US.

Aug 06, 2020

Sentieon Builds Business on Winning PrecisionFDA Challenges

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Genomic data analytics firm Sentieon uses the challenges to prove and increase customer confidence in its bioinformatics technology.

Jul 29, 2020

Nucleai Matches Cancer Patients to Immunotherapies With AI, Image Analysis

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With $6.5M in new funding, the Israeli bioinformatics startup is looking to open a US office as it builds relationships with pharma, cancer centers, and payors.

The Scan

This Time, Novavax

Novavax has begun a phase III trial of its SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, according to the New York Times.

Shortened Visas for Some Students

Vox reports that the Trump Administration may limit student visas for individuals from some countries to two years.

New York's Own Review

The governor of New York says the state will conduct its own review of any SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, NPR reports.

Science Papers Examine Y Chromosomes of Archaic Humans, Schistosomiasis Therapeutic Targets

This week in Science: Neanderthal Y chromosomes replaced by Homo sapiens Y chromosomes, and more.

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