Bioinformatics

A new multi-year strategic partnership between M2GEN and Zephyr AI will leverage clinicogenomic data, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence to accelerate drug discovery and expanded use cases for oncology treatments.  In this partnership, M2GEN will license its real-world data set (RWD) to Zephyr AI, while Zephyr AI will become a bioinformatics partner for M2GEN, providing the […]

Johannes Goll, Global Head of Emmes’ Biomedical Data Science and Bioinformatics department, explains how big data analytics can deliver improved therapies and bring clinical research one step close to realising the potential of personalised care. A key breakthrough area where big data analytics has shown tremendous scope and application is in systems biology, which has […]

Microbiome research company Clinical Microbiomics has acquired MS-Omics, a leading provider based in Denmark.   With this acquisition, Clinical Microbiomics hopes to further advance its systems biology platform and help researchers worldwide understand the microbiome and how to impact health and disease.    Anders Grøn, CEO at Clinical Microbiomics, commented: “There is an unmet need in the […]

Scitara has become a member of BioPhorum, a global community that enables collaboration throughout the biopharmaceutical industry with the goal of accelerating scientific advancements.  The Lab of the Future  Scitara joins BioPhorum Information Technology, which aims to accelerate digital maturity across the global biomanufacturing industry. One of the programmes within the portfolio, The Lab of the Future, sets out an industry manifesto […]

Pluto Biosciences has launched a cloud-based, collaborative life sciences platform that leverages technology developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. The Pluto platform simplifies secure, collaborative data sharing and bioinformatics analysis for academic, biotech, and pharmaceutical organisations.   The Pluto platform was built to be a comprehensive digital lab space for life […]

Listen to this article on the DDW Podcast: Dr Bongcho Kim is the new CEO of Macrogen Europe, a Netherlands-based provider of genomic sequencing services. Dr Kim’s appointment comes at a time of sustained growth for the company, which is benefitting from the rapidly expanding sequencing market. He talks to Lu Rahman and explains the important […]

New research has moved a step forward in understanding how glucocorticoid hormones (‘stress hormones’) act upon the brain and what their function is. The findings could lead to more effective strategies in the prevention and treatment of mental health disorders. The study, led by academics at the University of Bristol and published in Nature Communications, […]

Biotechnology company PerkinElmer has announced its documentation, workflow and decision-making informatics platform, Signals, is expanding to build on existing capabilities in the biologics drug discovery space. This comes through a collaboration with Insightful Science, a software company serving the global life sciences community. With the collaboration, pharmaceutical and academic research teams can combine the power […]

Jane Theaker, Kinomica explains why she was so impressed with the preclinical datasets predicting for drug response that the company could produce, she decided to join as CEO. Kinomica is a spin out offering phosphoproteomic analyses to the pharmaceutical industry. Theaker has R&D expertise in novel diagnostic technologies. Her experience includes genomics with AstraZeneca and […]