In an editorial published this month in Nature Biotechnology, the heads of the Human Proteome Organization's Chromosome-Centric Human Proteome Project proposed a collaboration betw

Researchers at the European Bioinformatics Institute have released the first version of Cram, a new software toolkit and file format for compressing and storing next-generation sequence data more efficient

Developers of InSilico DB, a publicly available repository of genomic datasets, are preparing to offer a commercial service based on the resource that will offer paying customers the chance to compare their proprietary RNA sequence data with public information and analyze it usin

Bioinformatics firm Annai Systems has partnered with IT consultancy ThoughtWorks to develop a software system that extracts pertinent information from individuals’ molecular data and integrates it with information from the scientific literature and public databases to help clinic

Australia's Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative hosts the fastest life science supercomputer in the world, according to the most recent version of the Top500 list released earlier this month.

The European Bioinformatics Institute said this week that Portugal has agreed to participate in the European Life-science Infrastructure for Biological Information, or ELIXIR, project.

Aloria K, Arizmendi JM, et al. PAnalyzer: A software tool for protein inference in shotgun proteomics. BMC Bioinformatics. 2012 Nov 5;13(1):288.

BioCyc 16.5 is available here.

With its recent investment in Quanterix, French diagnostics firm BioMérieux has added that company's Single Molecule Array high-sensitivity immunoassay platform to its offerings and positioned itself to take advantage of not only its own internal research on the platform but outs

Researchers from the British Columbia Cancer Agency this week presented results from a clinical study in which Verisante Technology's Raman spectroscopy-based Core device distinguished between cancerous and benign lung lesions with sensitivity and specificity of more than 90 perc

Most parents of an autistic child say they would test future children for risk of the disorder, if a molecular assay was available.

An editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association calls for a centralized system for disclosing conflicts of interest.

A blogger offers a guide for determining whether grad school is right for you.

In Science this week: DNA bricks, sequencing techniques to track disease, and more.

This story originally ran on Nov. 26. The Delaware Court of Chancery last week dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit filed against Vermillion by shareholders George Bessenyei and Robert Goggin.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Standard & Poor's on Thursday raised Life Technologies' corporate credit rating and the issue-level rating on the firm's secured and unsecured debt to BBB+.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A genome-wide RNAi screen has turned up hundreds of potential drug targets for Huntington's disease, according to a paper published yesterday in PLoS Genetics.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – MDxHealth and Ghent University announced today that they have formed a new epigenetics research center to accelerate innovations in personalized medicine.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University and Phoenix Children's Hospital will team up to use genome sequencing to study the molecular basis of desmoplastic small round cell tumor (DSRCT), a deadly pediatric cancer.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Med BioGene said after the close of the market on Thursday that it had no revenues for the third quarter ended Sept. 30.

Recent Patents of Interest in Proteomics US Patent No. 8,321,144. Non-contiguous regions processing. Inventors: Ernst Henle; Brandon Hunt. Assignee: Microsoft

Vermillion has named Bruce Huebner interim CEO, taking over for Gail Page, who will serve as a strategic advisor to the company.

Waters introduced its Acquity UPLC Online SPE Manager, which combines online solid phase extraction technology from Spark Holland BV with the company's Acquity UPLC.

Scientists from Abbott and collaborating academic institutions have recently published a pair of studies demonstrating the ability of Abbott's Plex-ID platform to detect and identify in human samples a wide array of clinically relevant infectious organisms not picked up using mor

Life Technologies has received CE IVD marking for its Applied Biosystems QuantStudio Dx platform and launched the instrument in Europe.