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Data Management

November 07 2006
Data management platform unleashed
Unleashed Informatics, based in Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital has launched a life science data management platform combining sequence, interaction and related interactome information.

July 10 2006
Electronic Health Record Installed in Montreal Hospitals
The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) (Montreal, QC) and Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) (Montreal, QC) have recently installed the Oacis EHR electronic health record to help manage patient data.

June 26 2006
Web System Streamlines Surgical Notes
Post-surgical practice for cancer treatment has changed in Alberta, now that a web-based surgical medical records program (WebSMR) has been implemented.


April 03 2006
Experimental Metagenomics System Released
The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has announced the release of an experimental metagenome data management and analysis system for use by researchers across the globe.

December 07 2005
Standard Proposed for Biological Computer Models
A team of representatives from four major model repositories has developed a standard it thinks will help ensure biological information can be properly catalogued and utilized.

October 18 2005
Experimental Design Automation
Key barriers to R&D productivity in the pharmaceutical industry are the bottlenecks of data access, analysis and collaboration created by the highly fragmented and rigid landscape of informatics and data management systems.

September 13 2005
Advanced Software Could Reveal Disease Cluster Data
Researchers at the University of Bath (Bath, U.K.) say that new software "agents" are needed to help scientists accurately investigate disease clusters and trends.

September 06 2005
Enhanced Data System Offers More Than 600 Genomes
The U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) (Walnut Creek, CA) has launched an enhanced version of its Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data management system.

May 25 2005
Researchers Build Human Kinase Gene Repository
A group of researchers at the Harvard Institute of Proteomics (Cambridge, MA) has drawn on multiple database sources to build a gene repository for all identified human kinase genes.

April 25 2005
World's First Biological Model Database Launched
BioModels, a new database cataloguing annotated biological models of various organisms, has been launched by an international group of bioinformatics researchers.


April 05 2005
Rat Genome Sequence Draft Released
A draft of the rat genome was recently released, which not only represents the third mammalian genome to be sequenced, but also provides a better understanding of human genetic disease.

November 15 2004
Turning Specimen Storage Into a Science
By Melissa Kruse, Bio-IT World
From the windows of BioStorage Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis, IN), one can watch a procession of FedEx® planes launching into the air from the nearby Indianapolis International Airport.

July 27 2004
Corn Sequencing Database Available
Corn genomics researchers can now turn to a new resource to advance their sequencing work.

June 28 2004
GlaxoSmithKline to Create Clinical Trials Database
Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) (Brentford, U.K.) will be creating an electronic database that will allow physicians and the public to access information about the companys clinical trials

April 19 2004
Getting To the Heart of the Matter
By Amber Lepage-Monette
Trying to understand the link between the genetic determinants and environmental determinants of heart, blood-vessel and lung disease is no easy task.

January 19 2004
Into the Future
By Lorin Charlton, PhD and Ryan Leskiw
PROTEOMICS TECHNOLOGIES WILL SUPPORT RESEARCH THAT IS UNIMAGINABLE TODAY

December 01 2003
Powerful Population
By Amber Lepage-Monette
Walking down the street on any given day, most of us meet or walk past dozens of nameless faces  strangers, who seem as unconnected to us as possible.

November 01 2003
Reaching Out
By Greg Gulyas
The most powerful rationale that companies use to justify turning the management of their information technology requirements over to an outside supplier is that it enables them to focus on what they do best.