Clinical IT
> A crowd of pharma groups attended a meeting for the Dose Finding Consortium that aims to, among other things develop software that quickly calculates optimal doses. Release
> Bio-IT World pinned awards on ePharmaSolutions for its algorithm that matches patients with clinical trials as well as other companies at the publication's show in Boston last week. Item
Big Data
> Austin-based Arpeggi pursues customers with the company's method of analyzing data from next-generation sequencing. Interview
> Bio-IT World doled out awards to standouts in Big Data, genomics and other fields, with Genomic Medicine Institute at Geisinger, Schrödinger, Prize4Life and GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK) taking home hardware. Bio-IT World best practices
Informatics
> Cedars-Sinai has brought on medical statistics wiz Zhenqui Lui as director of bioinformatics in the hematology/oncology division. More
> SilicoLife maps microbes with software to aid work on boosting productivity of biotech drug manufacturing. Profile