Life Sciences Conundrum: To the Cloud or Cloud-in-a-Box?
Below is a guest blog from Ketan Paranjape, director of personalized medicine at Intel. There has been a lot of news recently about cloud deployments in life sciences and genomics. With the push...
View ArticleNew Community Focus on Where Health IT and Bio IT Meet
Healthcare technology covers a wide continuum—from clinician/patient interaction using tablets and smartphones to research scientists analyzing genomic data to discover new personalized medicine...
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Below is a guest post from Kyle H. Ambert, PhD, Intel Graph Analytics Operation. Trends come and go, in the analytics world. First, everything is supercomputing, then everything is distributed...
View ArticleMaking Bio Big Data Accessible
When it comes to bio IT, data is the key that drives progress. In the above video, Pek Lum, vice president of solutions and chief data scientist at Ayasdi, and Mikael Flensborg, director of global...
View ArticleDoes Cost or Speed Mean More in Genomic Research? It Depends.
For genomic researchers, speed and cost drive their day-to-day data generation activities. When given a choice, most researchers will choose longer wait times for results if it means they can achieve...
View ArticlePart 1: The Changing Life of Modern Pharmaceutical Sales Professionals
Below is the second in a series of guest blogs from Dr. Peter J. Shaw, chief medical officer at QPharma Inc. Watch for additional posts from Dr. Shaw in the coming months. With all the recent...
View ArticleHow to Conduct 264 Years of Research in 18 Hours
In the above video, Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe talks about the strong disconnect that exists between research and clinical analysis. He says the current challenge in bio IT is to analyze data,...
View ArticlePersonalized Medicine: HPC Technology Needs to Be Ready
The promise of personalized medicine relies heavily on high performance computing (HPC). Speed and power influence the genome sequence process and ultimately patient treatment plans. With the SC14...
View ArticleSC14: HPC and Big Data in Healthcare and Life Sciences
What better place to talk life sciences big data than the Big Easy? As temperatures are cooling down this month, things are heating up in New Orleans where Intel is hosting talks on life sciences and...
View ArticleSC14 Podcast: How HPC Impacts Alzheimer’s Research
With SC14 kicking off today, it’s timely to look at how high performance computing (HPC) is impacting today’s valuable life sciences research. In the above podcast, Dr. Rudy Tanzi, the Joseph P. and...
View ArticleBio IT Data: What to Keep?
Based on what we heard at Supercomputing last month, it’s clear that bio IT research is on the fast track and in search of more robust compute power. In the above video, Michael J. Riener, Jr.,...
View ArticleUnlock Bio IT Puzzles with New Code Pipelines
The saying that “life sciences is like a puzzle” has never been more true than it is today. The life sciences are in the midst of a dramatic transformation as technology redefines what is possible for...
View Article5 Questions for Dr. Peter White, GenomeNext
Dr. Peter White is the developer and inventor of the “Churchill” platform, and serves as GenomeNext’s principal genomic scientist and technical advisor. Dr. White is a principal investigator in the...
View ArticleHow to Achieve 39 Percent Faster Performance for Whole Genome Analysis
The transition toward next-generation, high-throughput genome sequencers is creating new opportunities for researchers and clinicians. Population-wide genome studies and profile-based clinical...
View Article5 Questions for Dr. Giselle Sholler, NMTRC
Giselle Sholler is the Chair of the Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium (NMTRC) and the Director of the Hayworth Innovative Therapeutic Clinic at Helen DeVos...
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