Informatics
News on bioinformatics, software, genome analysis, variant classification, and IT in genetics, genomics, and molecular diagnostics.
Biden Cancer Moonshot Announces New Initiatives to Improve Diagnosis, Precision Treatments
The program announced a series of new public and private initiatives and projects designed to support its stated goal of halving the cancer death rate over the next 25 years.
Clinical customers helped Illumina place 91 NovaSeq X instruments in the fourth quarter. CFO Ankur Dhingra said many planned to use them for MRD testing.
Illumina Launches Pilot Proteomics Study With UK Biobank, Inks Partnership With Nvidia
In collaboration with UK Biobank and pharma partners, Illumina will analyze 50,000 samples using the upcoming Protein Prep assay and NovaSeq X Plus platform.
Truveta Genome Project Launches With $320M Investment From Regeneron, Illumina, Health Systems
The initiative aims to use genetic data from tens of millions of volunteers to create the largest and most diverse database of genotypic and phenotypic information.
Danish Multiomics Firm Cmbio Acquires Eagle Genomics Software Assets
Cmbio, headquartered in Copenhagen, was formed in November as a tie-up of several previously independent companies.