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SeqOne Genomics Closes €20M Series A Financing

The French bioinformatics firm will look to grow internationally and develop new tools to address cancer and hereditary diseases.

Despite Record Speed, Nanopore Sequencing Faces Challenges for Use in Routine Diagnostics
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Stanford researchers said the cost of their approach is in line with Illumina sequencing but did not share data on error rate and other benchmarks at this time.

Sema4 to Embrace Co-CEO Model After $623M Acquisition of GeneDx
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The purchase of GeneDx from Opko Health will help Sema4 accelerate its push into whole-exome sequencing and grow in rare disease diagnostics.

Taiwanese Startup GeneASIC Launches With Appliance for Fast NGS Data Analysis
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The company, which launched at the CES trade show last week, is also developing a small device for rapid analysis of long-read whole-genome sequences.

Genomenon, OmniTier to Integrate Genome Analysis Technologies

Users of OmniTier's CompStor Insight platform will be able to find and view relevant published scientific articles through Genomenon's Mastermind search engine.

Dec 23, 2021

Helix Gets Almost $900K From Rockefeller Foundation to Enhance Viral Genomic Surveillance

Dec 14, 2021

BostonGene Partners with NEC to Offer Tumor Portrait Tests Internationally

Dec 3, 2021

SelfDecode Moves Into B2B Services as it Seeks to Diversify, Increase its Reach
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Nov 24, 2021

Streamline Genomics Looks to Expand Variant Analysis Offering With Free Search, Paid Analytics
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Nov 10, 2021

Geneyx Genomex Closes $6.5M Seed Financing Round

Nov 10, 2021

Sophia Genetics Q3 Revenues Increase 44 Percent

Oct 27, 2021

GenomSys Gains CE Mark for New Genomic Analysis Software

Oct 7, 2021

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

OncoDNA, Sophia Genetics Partner on Tumor Profiling

Sep 27, 2021

MemVerge Hopes 'Big Memory Computing' Will Accelerate Bioinformatics Data Processing
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Sep 9, 2021

Sophia Genetics Q2 Revenue Grows 72 Percent

Aug 11, 2021

Sema4, Avera Health Collaborate on Precision Oncology Program

Jul 28, 2021

AbbVie, Biogen, Pfizer Join With Broad Institute on Genebass Exome Variant Project
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Jul 23, 2021

Sophia Genetics Raises $234M in IPO, Eyes Additional Partnerships

Jul 19, 2021

Sophia Genetics Increases IPO Target to $221M

Jun 22, 2021

Leidos Wins CDC Bioinformatics Contract Worth up to $13M

Jun 14, 2021

Celemics, Strand Life Sciences Partner on Integrated Platform for NGS Analysis

Jun 8, 2021

Oracle Makes Inroads in Genomic Cloud Computing
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Jun 1, 2021

Euformatics Expands Latin American Presence With A&C Group Distribution Deal

May 17, 2021

Oxford, Oracle Partner to Improve Identification of SARS-CoV-2 Variants

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For STEM Students to Stay

New policy changes will make it easier for international STEM students to stay in the US after graduation, the Wall Street Journal reports.

To Inform or Not, To Know or Not

The New York Times writes that some genetic biobanks may re-contact donors if they spot something troublesome, but it notes that not all donors want that information.

Rapid Test Studies

Researchers are examining why rapid tests may be less effective at detecting the Omicron variant and how to improve them, NPR says.

PLOS Papers on SARS-CoV-2 Diversity in Delaware, Metastatic Breast Cancer, Adiposity GWAS

In PLOS this week: genomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 isolates from Delaware, gene expression and protein-protein interaction patterns in metastatic breast cancer, and more.