Data analytics skills are in high demand in clinical research and treatment development, though most bioinformatics education courses focus on technical issues rather than the bigger picture of big data and its potential to change the way we …

Modern advances in personalized medicine have used technology to characterize a patient’s fundamental biology, in terms of DNA, RNA, and protein. This can be used to classify a disease (such as breast cancer subtype) or to characterize important …

The Human Genome Project showed that while mankind’s genetic makeup is 99.1% identical, and only 0.9% of genetic variability creates vast variability that exists within the human species (Novelli 2010). Personalized medicine is the effort to prescribe the …

Cancer is the second major cause of mortality in the United States and targeted cancer therapies are bringing about an exponential increase in effectiveness over traditional cancer therapies. Traditional cancer treatment, such as chemotherapy, has come a long …

A wealth of public domain biomedical data is available to anyone online, however, data analysis technology can only be utilized by those trained to work with it, leaving researchers without the proper skills and tools drowning in the …

The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2006 proved to the world the importance and infinite potential of large medical data collection and analysis. Developments in next-generation sequencing and other advances in biotechnology generated a wealth of …

This year’s Festival of Genomics in London was a great occasion to meet with companies and research organizations dealing with omics data and hear about the latest technologies and findings in this area. Dr. Priyal de Zoysa attended …

Pine Biotech held a workshop and discussion of the approaches that are being developed for the T-BioInfo platform. The approaches were presented by Julia Panov, a Ph.D. student from Haifa University and data scientist working at Pine Biotech. …

The Pistoia Alliance, a global organization of life sciences industry experts from AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Novartis and GSK was formed in 2009 to lower barriers to bioinnovation through promotion of pre-competitive collaboration and mentorship across life science industries. Pistoia …

Project-based learning is perhaps the most effective way to gain both an understanding of and practical experience in a technical subject. A growing number of public domain datasets is making it possible to conduct bioinformatic analysis of real …