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Biomatters taps Ammundsen as CEO

New Zealand-based Biomatters has a new CEO to lead the company amid a push to grow the organization's footprint in the U.S. market, where the provider of genomic research software called Geneious set up offices in Newark, NJ, and San Francisco last year.

Emerging player in DNA analysis joins forces with U. of Missouri

Appistry, a recent entrant in the game for providing analytics for genomics data, has picked up a partnership with the University of Missouri. The university is tapping Appistry's system called

Singapore group touts new genome assembly method

A major bugaboo in the genomics field is that errors often exist in draft sequences after DNA molecules are decoded and assembled. Researchers in Singapore say their algorithm can nip this problem in...

UPDATED: Google VC unit takes lead role DNAnexus' $15M round, hosting huge DNA database

Google ( $GOOG ) has staked a claim in the rapidly expanding genomics field-again. DNAnexus, a provider of online tools for managing and analyzing genomic data, revealed today that Google Ventures is

DNA computer tackles problems with code of life

Every once in a while at FierceBiotech IT, we like to dip into what's happening in wet labs--especially when it involves computer science. And perhaps there's no better convergence of wet lab

"Biopunk" illuminates world of bio-hackers

In "Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life," journalist Markus Wohlsen brings to light the efforts of do-it-yourself biotech inventors who are making use of such technologies as cheap DNA

NIH provides grant for 3D ribosome structures

DNA Software, a previous recipient of grants from the National Institutes of Health, has recently been awarded three Fast Track small business grants. The bioinformatics tool maker says in an