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R&D World | The need for next generation analytics to extract valuable insights from genomic biobank data

Precision medicine is poised to transform healthcare, with biobanks being identified as a key enabler to bring it to fruition by 2030 by putting new, extended datasets at the disposal of pharmaceutical researchers and healthcare professionals. — by Marilyn Matz

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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

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Bio-IT World || The Role Of Bioinformatics In Bringing Biobanks To The Forefront Of Scientific Breakthroughs

Life science researchers and drug discovery scientists today work in what, in my view, will be remembered in the future as the beginning of a “golden era” where the power of genetic information is connected to a wide range of other healthcare and lifestyle data to support better understanding of

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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.