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Volume 12 - Number 29 | July 18, 2008

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In This Week's Issue

Three Pharma Giants Bankroll Newcomer To Develop PGx Tools for Drug Discovery

Exact Disappoints Investors With Cost Restructuring Plan; Seeks M&A Partner

Study Confirms Gene Panel Predicts Lung Cancer Survival, But Urges Caution on Dx

Illumina, Avantome, Roche, Metabolon, UT Health Science Center, FDA, Response Biomedical, NY State Department of Health, Rosetta Genomics, Cellumen, Cernostics Pathology, Celera, Toyota Tsusho America, Nippon Kayaku

Joseph Hogan, John Dineen, Jim Doyle, James Dahlberg, Katherine Napier, Gordon Brunner, David Thompson, Glenn Muir, Robert Cascella, Mark Casey, Stuart Kingsley, Howard Doran

Features
NCI to Roll Out Cancer Molecular Analysis Portal to Integrate Oncology Data from TCGA
The Cancer Molecular Analysis Portal is scheduled to launch next week with about a terabyte of brain cancer data from the Cancer Genome Atlas project. TCGA’s ovarian and lung cancer datasets are the next scheduled to arrive, with “a continuous flow of datasets into the CMA Portal over the next few months.”

Software Firms Tap Max Planck Lab to Aid in Development of Cell-Imaging Tools
Two German image analysis software companies, Definiens and Transinsight, are finding that proximity to academic labs and publicly funded research ventures helps them to expand their product capabilities and their potential circle of users.

Ingenuity’s IPA to Act as Integration Core For Huntington’s-Specific CHDI Project
Ingenuity officials said the agreement with CHDI marks its first disclosure of a trend the company has seen among its pharmaceutical customers — the use of IPA as a knowledge-management and integration platform.

IP Roundup
Recent Patents in Bioinformatics, June — July, 2008

Bioinformatics Briefs
EBI, TGen, Johns Hopkins University, NIH, Genomatix, Pfizer, Cancer Genome Atlas, LabVantage, Thermo Fisher Scientific, GeneGo, University of Miami, Simulations Plus, Syngene

Downloads & Upgrades
RefSeq 29, European Genotype Archive, SYCAMORE, NextGENe, GenomeQuest 5.0, OpenLAB, Empower 2, ImageMaster 2D Platinum

People in the News
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