Semantic Search Engine for PubMed- Microsoft Vs Yahoo Vs Google Vs Oracle in Semantic Web Search

Hakia is a semantic web search engine, so what you might think. The difference is hakia targets legal, financial and Medical web searches. Thye have even licensed its technology to a startup company that summarized information for government and pharmaceutical companies There is more starting from April 2008 using Hakia you can search Pubmed. Adding [...]

Entire Genome Sequencing from Single Molecule DNA

Cambridge based Helicos Bioscience announced the publication of a report in Science Magazine demonstrating the first single molecule sequencing of an organism (M13 virus genome) examining more than 280,000 strands of captured DNA. Helicos’ uses a proprietary form of sequencing-by-synthesis called True Single Molecule Sequencing(tSMS)™. Unlike other methods, the technique builds up the sequence of [...]

Microarray Blog is on The Science Advisory Board

After a brief hiatus am back to work, Microarray blog is chugging along slowly though I get very less time now a days to write , I have no plans to stop the blog. But reaching out to more people is an issue If I cant post atleast once a week. Still I am going [...]

CombiMatrix Molecular Diagnostics Launches Microarray Test for Detection of Autism Spectrum Disorder

CombiMatrix  has completed the clinical validation of the  BAC array CGH based clinical microarray tests. ATScan is designed to detect known genomic copy-number variations  associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder and this test is now available to physicians and consumers.

Silicon Microarray technology receives award for application product of the year 2007

Parallel Synthesis Technologies’s Silicon Microarray technology has received the Small Times 2007 Best of Small Tech Award for application product of the year. NanoCon International conference Silicon Microarray technology is a set of micromachined silicon pin tools for printing DNA or protein microarrays. The identically micromachined printing tools, which can produce microarrays containing up to [...]

The Staphylococcus aureus microarray Database inching closer to Staph Infection Vaccine

MRSA the very name send shudders to any one working in a hospital setup, the aggressive Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) , is a bacterium responsible for some difficult-to-treat infections in humans. The organism is often the cause of community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) or hospital-acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA) depending upon the circumstances of acquiring disease, University of Southern [...]

microarray-based Clinical diagnostic tests

 Pathwork Diagnostics, and the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine has initiated an investigational study Genomics-Based diagnostic Test to determine a tumor’s origin so that tissue-specific management can begin. The test uses microarrays from Affymetrix More news on Pathworks website 

New Microarray technology replacing PCR and speed up HTS

Dr. Richard Gibbs, director of the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Centre and his researchers along with the help of  NimbleGen Systems the  company recently acquired by Roche Applied Science has developed a new technique that combines gene chip technology with the latest generation of gene sequencing machines to allow fast and accurate sequencing of selected [...]

A new strain of virus named after Washington University

A new strain of virus has been identified by the medical school and named the “WU” virus after Washington University. The virus, a type known as a polyomavirus, is closely related to two others, JC and BK, which attack the nervous system of HIV patients and cause kidney transplants to fail, respectively. The virus has [...]

Transposon insertion site profiling chip (TIP-chip)

Transposon insertion site profiling chip (TIP-chip) was invented by Researchers at the Johns Hopkins’ High Throughput Biology Center. Tip-chip can be used to help identify otherwise elusive disease-causing mutations in the 97 percent of the genome long believed to be “junk.” TIP-chip (transposable element insertion point) can locate in the genome where so-called jumping genes [...]

Affymetrix and Illumina in war path again as fresh patent litigation on microarray patents

Illumina and Affymetrix have been in a patent battle since 2004. In its second wave of patent infringement litigation cas against illumina filed in UK, Germany and US, Affymetrix has targeted technology offered by Solexa, the company acquired by Illumina in January 2007, as well as all of Illumina’s BeadArray(TM) products. The new case is [...]

Online Drug Discovery Database Launch

Assay Depot is claiming to become an on-demand” drug discovery services. The company is has launched Internet marketplace for the pharmaceutical services industry. By acting as a single point of contact between drug researchers and research service providers, the Assay Depot dramatically improves the efficiency of drug discovery research and, ultimately, helps deliver better and [...]

Microsoft Research, HIV, SPAM – MS anti-spam techniques help research HIV vaccines

Ever heard of the Teiresias algorithm, for spam detection developed by Chung-Kwei at IBM – the algorithm was developed in the bioinformatics group of IBM to detect patterns in DNA This algorithm is tested for SPAM detection- discussed in my  my earlier bioinformatics post So you may be wodering whats thats got to do with [...]

Microsoft Research, Indian Institute of Science Collaborate

Microsoft Research announced a sponsored research and collaboration agreement with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, India, to accelerate the scientific discovery process by increasing computational power in scientific and engineering research. This is the first agreement Microsoft Research has signed in India as part of a global effort to collaborate with leading [...]

Gene Logic sells in genomics division

It hardly a week I have wrote about acquisition and mergers , it seems the rain is noit going to stop any time soon, the latest one , to give away the home plate is Genelogic agreeing to sell its genomics division to India HQ Ocimum Biosolutions subject to the authorization of the transaction at [...]

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 [...]

Oracle Openworld 2007- Personalized Genomics session

Its the time -Personalized Genomics Advances in genetic information and laboratory technologies mean new ways to diagnose disease and determine patient risk. The wealth of genetic information makes it harder to provide meaningful information. During Oracle OpenWorld 2007 Oracle is presenting how laboratory information systems principles and Oracle customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning [...]

Scholarly publishers throws out Microsoft

After PLOS nature its the turn of microsoft, Life science researchers are in no mood to relent to industry’s interests. Microsoft’s latest Word release has caused chaos in scholarly publishing circles. Submit a paper to, the journal Nature in Word 2007, and you will face the following warning: ‘We currently cannot accept files saved in [...]

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  

DNA test results in three days, or Money Back

IDENTIGENE Becomes First DNA Testing Lab to Promise Fast Results with a Money-Back Guarantee . The company now Now Offers the Industry’s First Money-Back Guarantee, together with a Three-Day Turnaround on Results the website says IDENTIGENE is the only DNA testing lab with a money-back guarantee