Bio-IT World EXCLUSIVE | Hugh Rienhoff’s relentless search for the genetic basis for his daughter’s mysterious congenital syndrome has finally unearthed a legitimate but still unproven candidate for the disorder -- a homozygous frameshift mutation in the gene for copine-1.

African Genome ProjectThe Wellcome Trust and the National Institutes of Health have launched The Human Heredity and Health in Africa Project (H3 Africa), a $38 million partnership to study how genes and the environment, including diet, work together to affect

The new Howard Hughes Medical Institute computing cluster at Janelia Farm puts a premium on expandability and speed. By Randy Barrett July 26, 2010 | Computational biologists have a need for speed. The computing cluster at the Howard Hughes Medical

The challenges facing the primary producers of workflow and pipeline software—Accelrys and InforSense—may not be so much with each other as evolving in step with pharma’s needs. By John Russell July 26, 2010 | It’s tempting to paint the commercial workflow

Clinical Trials & Research Winner FDA nominated by GlobalSubmit Project Common Table of Contents By Kevin Davies July 26, 2010 | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) doesn’t often bask in the spotlight of positive press, which must make