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Broad Institute Launches Schmidt Center to Merge Biology, Machine Learning
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and wife Wendy Schmidt donated $150 million to endow the center, which will convene international academic and commercial collaborators.
Canadian Consortium Launches COVID Cloud to Support Molecular Research
Led by DNAstack and supported by Canada's Digital Technology Supercluster, COVID Cloud looks to build a nationwide bioinformatics infrastructure to address the pandemic.
UCLA Health, Regeneron Collaborate on Whole-Exome Sequencing
The Regeneron Genetics Center will provide whole-exome sequencing for 150,000 patients who will be able to opt-in to receive actionable results.
NanoString Launches NGS Readout for Spatial Transcriptomics, Partners With Illumina on Informatics
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The firm has partnered with Illumina to use the Dragen Bio-IT informatics platform to help customers analyze data from the new Cancer Transcriptome Atlas panel.
Saama-Led Consortium Seeks Data-Driven Answers to COVID-19
The newly launched EndPandemic National Data Consortium brings together seven life sciences and bioinformatics firms in search of treatments and vaccines.