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Ah, Grant Review
Published February 9, 2010, 9:31 am, GenomeWeb News
Have strong feelings on the NIH grant review process? Well, here's your chance to sound off and vent your frustrations with a reader poll over at DrugMonkey's place . The purpose of the poll is to determine whether the number of summary statements and the review service changes the way researchers view the alleged flaws in the review process.
People in the News
Published February 9, 2010, 9:31 am, GenomeWeb News
RainDance Technologies has appointed Sirshendu Roopom Banerjee to be company president and CEO.
New Product Watch
Published February 9, 2010, 9:31 am, GenomeWeb News
Roche NimbleGen said last week that it has certified genomics service provider Atlas Biolabs to provide target-enrichment and sequencing services using its technologies.
Outsourcing Sequencing
Published February 9, 2010, 9:00 am, GenomeWeb News
At Science Progress, Scripps' Jeanne Loring explores the possibility that American researchers will soon be outsourcing their sequencing projects to China . China's sequencing capability is growing rapidly, she writes, pointing out that BGI has ordered 128 Illumina sequencers, bringing the total number of sequencers there to 157 — nearly double what the Broad Institute has.
Sequenom Licenses Rights to Macular Degeneration Genetic Test
Published February 9, 2010, 7:15 am, GenomeWeb News
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Sequenom today said that it has licensed from Optherion exclusive worldwide rights to intellectual property covering diagnostic tests for genetic predisposition to late-stage age-related macular degeneration.
Clinical Data Revenues up 11 Percent in Q3
Published February 9, 2010, 7:00 am, GenomeWeb News
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Clinical Data today reported an 11 percent increase in its third-quarter revenues, driven by sales from its PGxHealth division.
CDC to Fund Genomics Knowledge Center
Published February 8, 2010, 1:00 pm, GenomeWeb News
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Office of Public Health Genomics at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will grant $1.5 million to fund the creation of a center that will help plan and develop systematic evidence reviews on genomics applications, among other efforts.
DNAVision Adds Illumina HiSeq to Service Offerings
Published February 8, 2010, 12:45 pm, GenomeWeb News
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – DNAVision, a Belgian genomics services provider, today said that it has purchased one of Illumina's new sequencing instruments, the HiSeq 2000, for its service offerings.
BioTeam's Mac OSX workaround for Sun's Grid Engine
Published February 8, 2010, 10:15 am, GenomeWeb News
The folks at BioTeam have developed a workaround for Mac users who want to employ The Grid Engine (SGE) on their HPC clusters. Grid Engine 6x. is apparently not installable on recent Mac client and server OSX versions, including Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard) and Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard) . According to Chris Dagdigian at BioTeam, the basic problem is that "SGE binaries will not launch or will be ...
CAREERS: Keep It Professional
Published February 8, 2010, 8:46 am, GenomeWeb News
BitesizeBio's Travis Medley has a few tips for handling the phone while you are on the job hunt . "You want the entire experience to exude professionalism," he says, to kick off his list of what not to do. First, don't be funny on your voicemail message and don't use that automated voice.
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