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Bio-IT World February 2006 Kevin Davies |
Celera Drops Drugs for Diagnostics The company that raced to sequence the human genome, ditched its flamboyant CEO and database subscription model to become a drug development company, has decided to change course yet again. |
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Davies et al. |
John Craig Venter Unvarnished The former Celera CEO talks about that company's politics, the future of sequencing technology, and his own genome. |
Bio-IT World March 17, 2004 |
Genome War and Peace The belated result is a fluid and frequently compelling book, with some fascinating insights into the commercial and political wrangling that accompanied the creation of Celera and ultimately undermined Venter's goal of becoming the Bloomberg of genomics. |
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Kevin Davies |
With a Click of the Mouse What do Eminem and Mus musculus have in common? About 30,000 genes, for a start. The author mulls over the second mammalian genome. |
Bio-IT World June 2005 John Russell |
A Totally Spooky Evening Paul Mullin's wonderful play, The Sequence, spills out the sometimes sordid details of the rivalry between the two men who were at the heads of the institutions racing to sequence the human genome. |
Bio-IT World Dec 2006/Jan 2007 Kevin Davies |
The One Percent Difference New research reveals a shocking new layer of human genome variation with profound implications for the future of genomic analysis and personalized medicine. |
Chemistry World July 13, 2011 Hayley Birch |
Naked mole-rat genome holds clue to beating cancer The recently published draft sequence of the naked mole-rat genome promises to reveal the secrets of its long and remarkably cancer-free existence, potentially providing new targets for anti-cancer drugs. |
Salon.com June 27, 2000 Tabitha M. Powledge |
Book of life? Hosanna! The Human Genome Project has been completed. We will now cure diseases, weed out defective genes and create a new supergeneration in the near future. Not. |
Fast Company September 2000 John Ellis |
The Secret of Life The mapping of the human genome, says Craig Venter, will change science, research, medicine, politics, health insurance, and the way biology looks at the last 3 billion years of evolution. And that's just the beginning. |
Bio-IT World May 2006 Kevin Davies |
Ashburner Receives Bioinformatics Benjamin Franklin Award A noted Drosophila researcher who helped lead the project to sequence the fruit fly genome in the late 1990s, Michael Ashburner was lauded for his steadfast championing of open-source resources for the genetics and informatics communities. |
Wired August 2000 Jennifer Hillner |
Area 22 The inside story of the first fully sequenced chromosome. |
Bio-IT World December 10, 2002 |
Craig Venter Unvarnished (part II) The former Celera CEO covers privacy, ESTs, and his new research institutes. |
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Kevin Davies |
DNA for Dummies? The journal Nature Genetics has just published a user's guide to the human genome -- and none too soon. |
Bio-IT World June 15, 2003 Elizabeth Gardner |
Mouse Hunt The deluge of data and accompanying proliferation of databases is spiraling out of control. New federations and solutions may offer partial relief. |
Bio-IT World March 8, 2005 Melissa Trudinger |
Craig Venter: In Darwin's Wake Since leaving Celera Genomics in 2003, J. Craig Venter has turned his attention from mining the human genome to exploring the life forms of the oceans. Here, he talks about his voyage. |
Bio-IT World December 10, 2002 Rotem Sorek |
Alternative Splicing: Listen to the Mouse The completed mouse genome may help to finally pin down the size of the transcriptome. |
BusinessWeek December 13, 2004 John Carey |
Craig Venter: DNA's Mapmaker Who could ever have imagined that a surfer working as a night clerk at Sears, Roebuck & Co. would eventually become the driving force behind the race to read the genetic code of humanity? |
Bio-IT World March 2006 Kevin Davies |
Church Inquiry Gets Personal Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church with his plan for the Personal Genome Project is a likely contender for the X Prize that will be awarded to the group or individual that most helps cross the $1,00 genome threshold. |
Bio-IT World April 15, 2003 Malorye Branca |
Beyond the Blueprint How will the wealth of data emanating from the human genome and allied technologies impact research on health and disease? |
Salon.com February 13, 2001 Arthur Allen |
Size doesn't matter As scientists unveil the human genome findings, it turns out we have a lot fewer genes than we'd thought, and not many more than a fruit fly... |
Salon.com June 26, 2000 Ralph Brave |
The great gene race A tiny private company and the giant public genome project jointly crossed the finish line. But the upstart really won. |
Wired December 2002 Douglas McGray |
Supermicrobe Man First Craig Venter cracked the human genome. Now he wants to sequence the ocean and save the world. |
Bio-IT World August 18, 2004 Kevin Davies |
Bio IT World President's Award: Francis Collins The director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) spoke of collaboration and computation during his acceptance speech. |
Bio-IT World September 2005 Kevin Davies |
Fantastic 454: DNA Sequencing Pyrotechnics In an exciting advance for DNA sequencing technology, a research team at 454 Life Sciences Corp. has essentially sequenced and assembled a bacterial genome sequence based on a mere 4-hour run on the company's proprietary instrument. |
Salon.com February 26, 2002 Annalee Newitz |
Genome liberation The information that details who we are is too important to be privately owned... |
Bio-IT World April 15, 2003 James Golden |
Sequence Signatures and Homeland Security The bio-IT community has a unique opportunity to contribute to national biodefense. |
Chemistry World March 27, 2014 James Urquhart |
Synthetic yeast chromosome is fully functional The first complete and functional synthetic yeast chromosome has been created by a team of scientists based in the US. |
Bio-IT World July 15, 2003 Salvatore Salamone |
Buying Power Celera's decision to replace its Compaq supercomputer with IBM and EMC is surprising. It also provides a fascinating how to procurement model for the bio-IT industry. |
Bio-IT World January 13, 2003 Julia Boguslavsky |
A Sequel to the Sequence The all-but-complete human genome sequence is not only an indispensable tool for biomedical research but also a major influence on the types of instrumentation researchers will invest in. |
Bio-IT World October 2005 Dennis A. Gilbert |
The DNA Sequencing Race: From Sprint to Marathon To create faster, cheaper, and better solutions for DNA analysis, we must remain committed to improving both current and new sequencing technologies. Research that just a short while ago might have been considered too complex, too expensive, or just inconceivable is now well within our grasp. |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: DNA With human cloning and other controversial bombshells waiting just around the corner, expect DNA to remain in the public eye for decades to come. |
Bio-IT World January 21, 2005 Kevin Davies |
Simulated Shades of Jurassic Park? Bioinformatics researchers have re-created part of the genome sequence of an ancestral mammal that lived 70 million to 80 million years ago. |
Information Today August 4, 2011 |
Elsevier Introduces Genome Viewer The Genome Viewer is a SciVerse application that displays detailed gene or genomic sequence information on the genes mentioned in an article. |
Chemistry World September 14, 2011 David Bradley |
Brewing up Synthetic Yeast Yeast with synthetic genomes could be very useful for medicinal chemists and drug companies. |
Bio-IT World June 12, 2002 Kevin Davies |
Variations on a Theme Researchers at Genaissance Pharmaceuticals have outlined the path to creating a comprehensive map of human genomic variation that should ultimately reveal the genetic underpinnings of common diseases. |
Reason Aug/Sep 2000 Ronald Bailey |
Strands of Life Book Review: Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley |
Salon.com April 24, 2000 Mark Compton |
Lean, green gene-counting machine Incyte CEO Roy Whitfield gives biotech investors and patent critics a few lessons on genomic research. |
IEEE Spectrum July 2010 Prachi Patel |
Computing the Neanderthal Genome New software helped decode the DNA of our stone-age cousins |
Scientific American June 2009 Melinda Wenner |
Genetic Copy Variations and Disease A new sense for how variable numbers of genes cause disease. |
The Motley Fool March 30, 2007 Ralph Casale |
Another Genetic Sequencer Gobbled Up Roche buys out second-generation sequencer 454 Life Sciences. Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek May 9, 2005 |
A Genome Pioneer Looks Forward Dr. Francis Collins discusses the end of the Human Genome Project and says an "outpouring of discoveries" is coming soon. |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2010 Brian Orelli |
$1,000 Genomes, Here We Come Illumina jumps on news of its $10,000 genome. |
Bio-IT World June 2006 John Russell |
Gilna to Captain CAMERA Later this summer researchers will gain access to version 0.5 of CAMERA (the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis) a platform replete with a wealth of data, analysis tools, and high-speed computational infrastructure. |
Bio-IT World February 18, 2004 |
Smokin' Supercomputing Paracel's Jason Molle on solving the IT challenges of biological analysis |
Bio-IT World June 15, 2003 Kevin Davies |
The Overly Bold and the Beautiful For many (who really ought to know better), the temptation to fetishize DNA is all but irresistible. |
Bio-IT World April 2007 Proffitt & Davies |
CAMERA Database Snaps Into Action The new Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis database was developed to store and disseminate the flood of genetic data being generated by work such as J. Craig Venter's Global Ocean Sampling expedition. |
Bio-IT World September 16, 2004 Kevin Davies |
Computing the Genome Boston University's Charles DeLisi explains his involvement with the human genome project and why he has recently turned his attention to systems biology and an AIDS vaccine. |
Bio-IT World April 2006 Karen Hopkin |
AGBT Meeting Puts Genome Advances Front and Center If the presentations at February's Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) are any indication, the race to generate fresh approaches to produce more sequence for less is far from over -- and looks to be heating up. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
A New Approach to Valuing Biotech Stocks Enormous swings in biotechnology stock prices during the last few weeks show how difficult it is for investors to value biotech companies. It's important to understand the invisible potential locked up in the organizational structure of biotechnology companies... |
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Susan Hassler |
Genome to Go It's already possible to have your own genome sequenced. But personalized medicine based on sequencing still has a way to go |