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IO Informatics Puts Semantic Web Ideas to Work
Bio-IT World | The founders of IO Informatics adopted semantic web ideas early and incorporated them into a scientific data integration and management platform: Sentient Suite.
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Phase 5 of the Cancer Gene Index Project Begins
Bio-IT World | Sophic has announced $1.3 million of funding from the National Cancer Institute to complete the Cancer Gene Index Project over the next 12 months. Sophic started the project in June 2004 with the goal of mining 8.8 million Medline abstracts to identify suspected cancer genes and manually annotate gene-disease and gene-compound relationships.
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GTA4: Enabler of Life Sciences Research?
Bio-IT World | The huge success of a game like GTA4 will lead electronics makers to develop even better graphics and faster animation, which are increasingly being tapped to conduct life sciences R&D.
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AI Improves Automated High-Throughput Screening
Bio-IT World | Researchers have applied an artificial intelligence (AI) technique to cellular image analysis that has the potential to significantly speed up a method for analyzing biological specimens.
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GNS: Building a SNPs-to-Outcomes Engine
Bio-IT World | Interview with Gene Network Sciences CEO Colin Hill, on sifting through the genetic data flood to accurately predict SNPs-to-outcomes.
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James Watson’s Personal Genome Published in Nature
Bio-IT World | Fifty-five years after James Watson co-authored the most famous paper in Nature magazine’s history -- the discovery of the DNA double helix with Francis Crick -- his genome sequence is also gracing the pages of the famous scientific journal.
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Al Gore Helps Navigenics Launch Personal Genomics Service
Bio-IT World | Former Vice President Al Gore’s surprise appearance was the highlight of the Tuesday reception that marked the launch of Navigenics’ new personal genomics service.
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NIH Laptop Theft: How Safe Is Your Data?
Bio-IT World | A laptop stolen from the NIH included seven years’ worth of clinical trial data, including names, medical diagnoses, and details of the patients' heart scans.
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Dealing with the Data Deluge: Three Things IT Should Do
Bio-IT World | The life sciences are undergoing an unprecedented data explosion, according to new research released this month by IDC.
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Applied Biosystems and the $60,000 Human Genome
Bio-IT World | Just weeks after Illumina announced it had cracked the $100,000 threshold for sequencing a human genome, Applied Biosystems has sequenced a complete human genome sample using its new SOLiD next-generation sequencing platform, reportedly for less than $60,000.
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Addressing Life Sciences Constantly Growing Data Challenges Research Environments
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“Storage for Science – Methods for Managing Large and Rapidly Growing Data Stores in Life Science Research Environments” sponsored by Isilon
Large and rapidly growing stores of file-based and other data are a hallmark of life science research and bioinformatics. Determining how best to manage those data stores has become a significant challenge for Researchers and IT Pros alike.
This paper is intended to:
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Hospital Paperwork No Longer Has to Be an In-patient Procedure
 How many times have you filled out that same patient registration form when visiting a doctor or the hospital? If you are a hospital administrator, nurse or registrar, you know that your patients and particularly your staff have managed hundreds of consent forms for medication, procedures, anesthesia, and HIPAA. Paperwork redundancy has become a significant bottleneck in the healthcare system. In this podcast, we’ll learn about how Adobe solutions for healthcare can help you streamline your paperwork and stop making paperwork an in-patient procedure.
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