News on bioinformatics, software, genome analysis, variant classification, and IT in genetics, genomics, and molecular diagnostics.
Stanford University researchers have adapted a cryptographic technique for use in genomic analysis.
Geneformics, which grew out of Israel's Weizmann Institute, promises to boost the speed of moving data by tenfold and cut costs by 90 percent.
Hospital will partner with several other institutions in this effort to support data-driven research into pediatric cancers and structural birth defects.
"It's actually pretty difficult to build an artificially intelligent machine," according to a top Google life scientist, who is more focused on iterative machine learning.
The researchers plan to work with the NIH's Genome Research Alliance for Transplantation consortium to compare their method with others.
