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Norway's sequencing project will need major IT infrastructure

Norway's decision to sequence the 25,000 Norwegians diagnosed with cancer each year will require the country to build specialized computing infrastructure to cope with the enormous influx of new...

Study aims decode baby DNA, create analysis tools

Scientists want to sequence the genomes of 500 babies and their parents to find genetic triggers for pre-term birth and other abnormalities. And the chief of the Inova Translational Medicine...

Report: Samsung to test genomic analysis service

Count Samsung as an interested player in the growing genomic analysis game. The Seoul-based tech giant's bioinformatics group plans to test a genomic analysis service, which will analyze whole genome

PerkinElmer acquires Geospiza, recognizes importance of genomic information

Xconomy's Luke Timmerman explains why life science toolmaking giant PerkinElmer decided to acquire Seattle bioinformatics business Geospiza, despite the fact that the acquisition will have "minimal

IT to drive biotech headway

Data processing and bioinformatics may become bottlenecks as the need grows to assemble and compare large numbers of genomes, says Xconomist in a list of five transformational biotechnologies of the

Sequence tech readies for launch

Complete Genomics' announcement that it has sequenced, analyzed and delivered 14 human genomes to customers since March is a prelude to the commercial debut of the company's human genome sequencing