Is bioinformatics still a viable career choice or a business model?

If you are on linkedin take a look at the question posted by Jake Chen, Founding Director at Indiana Center for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine. One area where bioinformatics havn’t experimented a lot is probably adopting SaaS (software as a service) methodology for growth. Software being developed for scientists is still not that user-friendly. [...]

Final week to register for 2007 Emerging Technology Awards

Final week to register for 2007 Emerging Technology Awards Join the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal as we honor the companies on the forefront of technology and celebrate those who are leading the way in innovation and entrepreneurship at the 2007 Emerging Technology Awards. Reserve your spot now! Registration deadline is Friday, October 26, 2007. [...]

Mergers Acquisitions Consolidation-Microarray Industry bubble in making- The days are numbered

Bioinformatics promise has already had its brush with plenty of resistance, not it seems the time for microarray industry with consolidation and acqusitions and megers announced almost every week. The slow adoption and too many fragmented with disparate standards has made the industry a victim of its own success. the new kid on the block [...]

Laying with the Lions

The following article is one of the best I just came across which talkes about advantages of better collaboration in pharma companies.   The study and articles are on Act Magazine website  

Toxicogenomics can change face of clinical trials

“Genomics is only the start. Proteomics has been around for years and metabonomics is an up and coming important technology, both of which are complimentary to genomics. But still I think that genomics will be the most successful and most predictive of all these technologies.” Dr Phil Hewitt  Head of Toxicogenomics at Merck. Meanwhile Gene [...]

Microsoft life science

Well every one is writing about google and its foray into biology and life science, so what is going on with Other companies . Microsoft started its BioIT alliance During 2006 and guss what Bill Gates said during the launch “Advances in our understanding of the human genome promise to revolutionize medicine and open the [...]

Server Virtualization

Citrix Acquire XenSource to Enter Server and Desktop Virtualization Markets. So whats it has got to do with genetics and bioinformatics , XenSource is the leading provider of enterprise-class virtual infrastructure solutions Originally created by the founders of XenSource at University of Cambridge, the Xen virtualization “engine” is now developed collaboratively by an active open [...]

Is the SBIR grant program is unfairly towards small biotech companies

28 patient organizations joined BIO in asking Congress to restore eligibility to venture-backed biotech companies to “help innovative research move forward in order to foster breakthrough cures.” Under the SBA’s new rules, companies with more than 50 percent of their backing from venture capital can’t compete for grants  Biotech industry calls on Congress to change [...]

Stein GAVE Bioinformatics Ten Years to Live

Its an old story but looking at whats happening in bioinformatics industry now i think this topics some what relevant. The industry has seen an unprecedented number of mergers and collaboration something unthinkable at the early stages of bioinformatics era. Lincoln Stein’s keynote at the O’Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference was provocatively titled “Bioinformatics: Gone in [...]