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Bio-IT World || Lessons From the Recent HCA 2022 General Meeting: Applying Single-Cell Data to Clinical Decision Making

The recent Human Cell Atlas (HCA) 2022 General Meeting, hosted in Vienna, Austria, provided a great opportunity for me to catch up on progress towards the HCA’s goal of mapping every cell type in the human body. I also got the chance to hear presentations that either highlighted new insights gleaned from HCA data or described the outcomes from ongoing collaborations between research groups.

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IPI || Why the right approach to data management will enable the potential of small-molecule RNA sodifiers as drug targets to be fulfilled

Over the past 5 decades or so, the growing understanding that RNA can influence protein function through routes other than direct translation has opened the prospect of discovering small molecules for tackling diseases in novel ways.

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flexFS: A File System Transforming the Efficiency of Large-scale Cloud Analytics in Life Sciences and Beyond

Benchmarks highlight a system that’s faster AND cheaper: innovative throughput optimization can deliver over 500x higher aggregate throughput vs. leading elastic solutions, at under half the cost
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GEN: Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | The Vast Potential of Single-Cell Analysis

Single-cell analysis has great promise… but how can we get there? by Zachary Pitluk