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CRISPR-IL Consortium Hopes AI Can Improve Accuracy, Efficiency of Gene Editing
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The Israeli government-funded group of biotech, pharma, computational biology, and agriculture interests has developed software for predicting CRISPR guide RNA.

Combined Approach Enables Modeling of Core Protein Interactions Based on Yeast Proteome

The combination of deep learning approaches with a co-evolution analysis allowed researchers to model yeast protein complexes.

Israeli Government Extends CRISPR-IL Consortium With $14.5M in New Funding

The second 18-month phase of the program to develop AI technologies for gene editing seeks to validate and refine software developed since last year.

Pfizer Centralizes RNA-seq Data on Seven Bridges Under Integrative Biology Program
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Just months into its collaboration with Seven Bridges, Pfizer is moving beyond its original scRNA-seq plans to migrate bulk RNA-seq data to aid R&D.

Computational Biologists Seek Continuous Benchmarking of Bioinformatics Technology
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The in-development Renku method from the Swiss Data Science Center was built to update automatically as new metrics are introduced.

Oct 7, 2021

Wyss Institute Spinout Pluto Biosciences Bets on Collaborative Bioinformatics Platform
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Sep 30, 2021

Jackson Laboratory Modernizes its Research Data Storage Infrastructure
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Sep 22, 2021

Polynesian Island Population History Revealed From Present-Day Human Genomes

Aug 26, 2021

Pandemic Accelerates Development of Informatics Tools for Viral Genome Analysis
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Jul 8, 2021

Nvidia Launches Cambridge-1 Supercomputer to Support 'Digital Biology'
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Jun 17, 2021

Nucleome Therapeutics Looks to Use Single-Base-Pair Genome Mapping Method for Drug Discovery
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Jun 3, 2021

Engine Biosciences Using CRISPR, Machine Learning to Build Drug Candidate Pipeline
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May 26, 2021

Engine Biosciences Closes $43M Series A Round

Apr 30, 2021

GWAS-Methylation Integration Could Help Identify Drug Repurposing Candidates for MS
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Apr 30, 2021

New European Supercomputers to Support Data Sharing Efforts, Drive Dx Innovation
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Mar 25, 2021

Broad Institute Launches Schmidt Center to Merge Biology, Machine Learning

Mar 12, 2021

Harvard, Nvidia Team Develops Deep Learning Approach to Improve ATAC-Seq Quality
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Mar 2, 2021

NIH, Partners Commit $74.9M to New Phase of Alzheimer's Program

Dec 8, 2020

'Serverless' Cloud Technology Dramatically Accelerates RNA-Seq Alignment Time
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Nov 24, 2020

Startup Angstrom Bio Plans Saliva-Based COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Test on Nanopore Sequencing Platform
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Nov 18, 2020

Lurie Children's Hospital Details Migration of Clinical Diagnostics Lab to hg38 Reference Genome
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Nov 5, 2020

Paradigm4 Moves Into Single-Cell Data, Helps Pharma Address COVID-19
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Oct 1, 2020

Algorithm Uncovers New Complex Rearrangement Classes in Cancer Genomes

Sep 24, 2020

Catalog DNA Merges Molecular Biology, Information Theory to Pursue DNA-Based Computing
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Sep 2, 2020

Mount Sinai Bioinformaticians Identify Drug Candidates to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Replication
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Monkeypox Case Found in US

The New York Times says that a case of monkeypox has now been reported in the US.

Effects on Fetal Screening

Wired writes that changes to US abortion laws could affect screening for fatal congenital conditions.

'Pharma Bro' Out of Prison

The Wall Street Journal reports that Martin Shkreli has been released from prison to a halfway house.

Nature Papers Present Cultivate Oat Genome, Benchmarking of Spatial and Single-Cell Transcriptomic Integration Methods

In Nature this week: reference genome of the cultivated oat, and more.