The BioIT Alliance was the subect of a lunch time session on April 29, 2008 at the BioIT World Conference in Boston MA. Dr. Rudy Potenzone, Director of the Alliance from Microsoft, presented a current status of the Alliance membership, and its goals Read More

Microsoft Research is pleased to announce a new worldwide Request for Proposals (RFP):  Cellphone as a Platform for Healthcare. For full details, guidelines, and instructions, please visit: http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/RFPs/CellPhoneAsPlatformForHealthcare_RFP.aspx. Read More

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The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing is calling for papers related to next generation sequencing. Potential Topics are: • Algorithms for de novo assembly with paired short sequencing reads• Methods for polymorphism discovery and medical resequencing• Design Read More

Microsoft Corp.’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Group today announced it has joined the SAFE-BioPharma Association, a nonprofit association that created and manages the SAFE™ digital identity and signature standard for the pharmaceutical and healthcare Read More

At Biotechnology Executive Forum held on October 19, 2006 at Cambridge, MA, Microsoft Corp. announced the initiation of the BioIT Alliance’s second proof of concept, called the Biomarkers project, along with an update on Alliance’s first proof of concept, Read More

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