French startup OmicX has built an AI-based search engine for omics-related knowledge to help biomedical researchers find protocols in published literature.
Circuit Clinical will collect, store, and process blood, tissue, and bodily fluids through the UB biorepository for genomic sequencing and microbiome studies.
The new IQvia E360 Genomics build includes a "privacy-preserving" database system and will soon have analytic tools to support genotype-phenotype research.
Taiwanese startup Atgenomix and Yourgene Bioscience Taiwan are combining technologies to build a "comprehensive" system for WGS and WES variant analysis.
Freshly minted as a "unicorn," the Utah healthcare data analytics powerhouse is building up a new life sciences division to aid biotech development and precision medicine.
The UK informatics startup has received funding from Innovate UK to implement an informatics platform for physicians to identify patients for genomic testing.
Funded by a $120M grant, the planned interdisciplinary School of Data Science will dedicate perhaps a quarter of its resources to bioinformatics-related activities.
The partnership with Finnish medical data sciences services vendor MedEngine will help BC Platforms offer end-to-end services for pharma and health-tech companies.
Research presented at AMIA this month demonstrated a computing method for predicting family pedigrees by mining demographic data in electronic health records.
The Oregon state Senate unanimously passed a bill that would make it easier for people convicted of crimes to initiate DNA testing of evidence, according to the Associated Press.
Florida state senators are to weigh a bill prohibiting life insurance companies from using genetic information in coverage decisions, according to Florida Politics.
In Genome Research this week: metagenomic sequencing assay that detects pathogens in cerebrospinal fluid, single-tube long fragment read approach, and more.
