The latest precision medicine news

Can 2017 top 2016?

In the life sciences, 2016 brought us many significant developments, and thank goodness, it’s mostly exciting and great to talk about those in length. I am talking here about technological advancements, the many new...read more

The Need to Address the Ensuing Data Explosion is Imminent

Clearly, the DNA sequencing technology has matured and is continuously being optimized for performance while becoming increasingly affordable, thus opening an era of reliable and foreseeable quality data growth...read more

Just Released – Our New NGS Data Analysis & Interpretation Ecosystem Analysis Report

Palo Alto, CA, August 22, 2016 – enlightenbio LLC, today announced the publication of its NGS Data Analysis & Interpretation Ecosystem Analysis Report. This new report details an extensive ecosystem...read more

The Biologists and Clinicians Still Require Hand-Holding When it Comes to Sequence Data Analysis and Interpretation

Bioinformaticians are a bottleneck and at high demand. They are hard to find, hire, and retain, while typically being an expensive investment. This realization is not new, but has escalated with the sequence data...read more

Repositive Wants to Overcome Data Analysis and Sharing Challenges to Facilitate the Advancement of Science

Last month I had a chance to meet Fiona Nielsen, CEO of Repositive, when she was visiting San Francisco for the BlackBox Connect program. I took this opportunity to learn more about Repositive, the platform the company...read more

Just Released – Our New NGS Process Report! Market Trends, Unmet Needs and Challenges, and Ecosystem Analysis

Palo Alto, CA, June 14, 2016 – enlightenbio LLC, today announced the publication of its first NGS Process Report. This new report details market trends, unmet needs and challenges, and an extensive ecosystem...read more

This year’s Bio-IT 2016 With Clinical Genetics as the Frontrunner

This year’s Bio-IT conference – with theme Big Data – was clearly marked by the presence of clinical genetics: its data sharing, analysis, and interpretation challenges echoed throughout the many talks (and exhibit)...read more

enlightenbio Customer Spotlight: Lab7 Systems Product Definition, Strategy, and Positioning

Lab7 Systems Enterprise Platform Product Roadmapping and Feature Definition In this series of “Customer Spotlight” blog posts, we profile some of our valued customer companies to give our readers a sense of what...read more

At AGBT 2016, the Winners Are Long Reads and Whole Solutions

This year’s pilgrimage of geneticist, genomics scientists, and along with that commercial companies was to the JW Marriott in Orlando and not as usual to Marco Island – however, we were assured that the next two AGBT...read more

PMWC 2016 Silicon Valley: Scalable Clinical Data Interpretation The Biggest Bottleneck

This year’s Personalized Medicine World Conference (PMWC 2016 Silicon Valley) was comprised of many exciting sessions and presentations in the area of next-generation sequencing, different diagnostics applications...read more

The JP Morgan Healthcare Conference from Afar

This being an invitation-only conference, I had to follow the JP Morgan Healthcare conference from a distance. As we have witnessed in the past, exciting announcements happen here in San Francisco some of the news spark...read more

2015 – A Year of Health Initiatives, Commercial Milestones, Company Acquisitions, and Scientific Achievements

2015 was a fast moving and busy year in the many fields of science, next-generation sequencing, diagnostics, and of course precision medicine. A lot can be attributed to technological advancements particularly in next...read more

Merck’s Research Laboratory President Dr. Roger Perlmutter Shares His Vision on “How Personalized Medicine Will Impact Healthcare”

The following is an interview recently conducted by the PMWC Intl. team with Dr. Roger Perlmutter (President, Merck Research Laboratories). The discussion with Dr. Perlmutter focused on various aspects of personalized...read more

UCSC Genomics Institute’s Director David Haussler Addresses “Data Solutions in Clinical Genomics” Questions

The following blog is a repost of a recent post by Tal Behar, Co-founder & Executive Director at PMWC Intl, on LinkedIn Pulse. We believe this post – a set of questions and answers to the UCSC Genomics...read more

AHSG 2015 Roundup – Big Data, Heritability, Epigenetics, Enhancers, and Patients as Partners

The ASHG conference in Baltimore was accompanied by some broadly discussed highlights which are reflected in how the media and the social networks embraced it. It was nice to see that the coverage spanned not just...read more

enlightenbio Customer Spotlight: Cypher Genomics Clinical Content Curation

Cypher Genomics Clinical Content Curation enlightenbio consists of a unique team of life scientists with extensive industry experience in content acquisition and software tool development for the management, analysis...read more

At Bio-IT 2015 Big Data via Integration Platforms for Data Analysis, Patient Monitoring, and Collaboration

Last week’s Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston was attended by more than 3,000 scientists, members of the pharmaceutical industry, and subject matter experts to discuss latest requirements in data analysis...read more

Looking back at AGBT 2015

This year’s meeting was in every way very much what was expected: a great set of science talks, a never ending networking event, and last but not least a product launch point. Instead of summarizing what has been...read more

At ASHG 2014 genomics was everywhere, with big data and variant analysis/interpretation

Last week the annual gathering of human geneticists happened at the convention center in sunny San Diego. This year this engaging conference was dominated by genomics, and in particular the topics of big data, variant...read more

The Life of a Genetic Counselor: Providing Patient Education, Navigating Insurance, and Challenges in Choosing Tests

Recently I got a glimpse of life as a genetic counselor when I spoke with Kerry Kingham from the Stanford Cancer Center. So many of us in the genomics community come from the worlds of technology and science — I thought...read more

ACMG 2014 headlines included rethinking diagnostics, incidental findings, & variant interpretation

This year’s Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting was held in Nashville, Tennessee, and made this location for a couple of days a site of pilgrimage for genetics professionals (medical and clinical geneticists...read more

AGBT 2014 showcases sequence data analysis software solutions

This past week, 850 researcher were traveling to Marco Island – despite snow storms and airport shutdowns – to mingle with like-minded, to hear about the latest advancements in sequencing technologies and software...read more

Let’s get social while you focus on your science and business

First off, I am so excited to now be a part of the enlightenbio team. Second, I’m thrilled to play a role in social media management for our customers. As you all know, social media is such an essential part of who we...read more

ASHG 2013 delivered a mix of worthy news and acquisitions

Last week the world of human geneticists met in Boston for their annual conference to meet and engage with other scientists, to share their latest findings, or to learn about new products and how they can make their...read more

Engaging the crowd: our best bet to reach ambitious goals in healthcare

Over the last couple of months, I’ve come across a great number of tools that engage the crowd to solve a problem. I wanted to dig a little bit deeper to understand some examples of what has been done using the crowd...read more

For four days, San Francisco’s Japantown was the center of genomics

At the end of June I was fortunate enough to attend the second annual Clinical Genome conference, a meeting hosted by Cambridge Healthtech Institute. The conference was divided into two sections: “The Science of...read more

Welcome to the enlightenbio blog!

Given the exciting times we are living in right now, sometimes it feels like we have hit the data jackpot. Consider the fields of biology and health care, which are changing rapidly and churning out big data thanks to...read more

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