NEWYORK (GenomeWeb) – Illumina has launched a new category of applications for its BaseSpace cloud infrastructure called BaseSpace Labs, through which it intends to

NEWYORK (GenomeWeb) – IBM has added capabilities to Watson that it claims will be a boon for researchers in the pharmaceutical industry and other arms of the life science market, enabling them to better use the large quantities of data available in the scientific literature.

NEWYORK (GenomeWeb) – Pennsylvania State University has launched a new graduate certificate in applied bioinformatics through which it intends to train biomedical researchers to apply and use algorithmic processes, tools, and techniques to explore data from omics studies.

Habermann BH, Oswald F, et al. morFeus: a web-based program to detect remotely conserved orthologs using symmetrical best hits and orthology network scoring.

BioJava 3.1.0 is available here and from the maven repository.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – AB Sciex this week announced a collaboration with Dalton Pharma Services through which the mass spec vendor plans to develop methods for analysis of antibody-drug conjugates.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Key to developing successful multiple-reaction monitoring assays is careful selection of peptides on which to perform quantitation.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A federal court has issued a mixed decision in the ongoing patent dispute between PerkinElmer and Agilent Technologies regarding their mass spectrometry technologies and a licensing agreement.

Recent NSF Awards in Proteomics and Protein Research

Waters this week released its Progenesis Q1 2.0 software for small molecule data analysis.

Progenra has appointed Wayne Hancock to its scientific advisory board. Hancock is professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where he researches immunology, inflammation, and mechanisms of disease pathologies.

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – CareDx disclosed in a regulatory filing on Thursday that Roche is seeking an estimated $3.5 million from the firm for allegedly breaching a licensing deal the companies brokered in 2004.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Next-generation sequencing-based clinical diagnostics firm Blueprint Genetics today announced it has raised $3.9 million to fund its international expansion.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – NanoString Technologies this week announced the passing of J. Wayne Cowens, who had served as the firm's chief medical officer since 2011. He was 67 years old.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Cancer Genetics this week said that three of its tests have been included in the National Institutes of Health's Genetic Testing Registry, a searchable online registry of genetic tests.

Legal action probably isn't an option for combating predatory scientific publishing, which means academics must carefully vet journals that offer to publish their work.

Riken fails to replicate scandalous stem cell technique, plans reboot for tainted center.

An academic tussle breaks out over gene expression and happiness.

In Science this week: Ebola virus genomes, transdisciplinary research barriers.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – HTG Molecular Diagnostics today announced the closing of a growth capital term loan facility for up to $16 million with Silicon Valley Bank and Oxford Finance. HTG said it drew $11 million of the funding at the initial closing.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) — While the genetics behind animal domestication are complex and mostly uncharted, researchers have uncovered new evidence that appears to explain some of the genomic transformation of wild rabbits into a variety of tame bunnies.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – NanoString Technologies today filed a $100 million shelf registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Era7 Bioinformatics today announced a $400,000 investment in the firm by Comercial Rafer to help accelerate the international expansion of the company.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – An international team led by investigators in the US, Sierra Leone, and the UK has garnered genetic evidence suggesting that the current Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa involves a form of the virus not linked to recent outbreaks in the region.