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Genomics tops chart of social media buzz in biotech IT

Genomics was a hot topic last week at the Bio-IT World Expo, as tech companies and service providers highlighted their tools and hardware for exploring and interpreting the genome.

Roche, BGI team on new capture tech for genetics studies

Two powerhouses in genomics have joined forces on new technology that could improve research on diseases such as cancer and AIDS. Roche NimbleGen and BGI said Monday that they have developed a new...

BGI, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia team on next-gen sequencing, bioinformatics

BGI , the Chinese company that claims to be the largest DNA sequencing outfit, has expanded its footprint in the U.S. With its new partnership with The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, BGI...

BGI birthing 'big data' journal with publishing vet

BGI creates large volumes of data when sequencing genomes for scientific researchers, forcing the China-based company to tackle the challenges of storing and analyzing huge datasets. The firm, one of

Drug giant Merck, biotech giant BGI team up to discover biomarkers

BGI will take all that sequencing power it possesses as the world's largest genomics center--the same power that helped crack the German E. coli case --and put it together with Merck ($MRK), one of

Sequencing giant BGI shoots for the cloud

With DNA sequencing data storage and analysis stressing the computing capacity of some labs, BGI is expanding into the realm of cloud computing from its core business of providing sequencing

Sequencing giant BGI advances in bioinformatics game

BGI apparently isn't satisfied with being the largest genome sequencing outfit in the world. The Chinese sequencing giant has a host of new and updated bioinformatics software offerings, which appear