Current progress and future opportunities in applications of bioinformatics for biodefense and pathogen detection: report from the Winter Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-up, College Park, MD, January 10, 2018 This article was originally published [Read more]
To encourage the development and improvement of Infectious Diseases Next-Generation Sequencing (ID-NGS) analytical methods, precisionFDA – the community platform for NGS assay evaluation and regulatory science exploration – has launched the precisionFDA [Read more]
Illumina, Inc. announced on 15 May that it acquired Edico Genome, the leading provider of data analysis acceleration solutions for next-generation sequencing (NGS). Edico Genome’s DRAGEN® Bio-IT Platform (DRAGEN) uses field programmable [Read more]
There are only two days left to complete the CFSAN Pathogen Detection Challenge. Sponsored by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), the challenge calls on [Read more]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), in collaboration with the Office of Health Affairs National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC), today announced five finalists for Stage 1 of the Hidden [Read more]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Biological Technologies Office (DARPA BTO) is currently accepting proposals under its streamlined funding process, the Biological Technologies EZ Broad Agency Announcement (EZ BAA). DARPA BTO seeks [Read more]
The National Strategic Research Institute (NSRI) at the University of Nebraska recently received a contract from the Department of Defense (DoD) to further research in cyberbiosecurity, an emerging field in biomanufacturing. The [Read more]
Traditional infectious disease surveillance — typically based on laboratory tests and other data collected by public health institutions — is the gold standard. But it can have time lags, is expensive to [Read more]
Nephele, sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), assists microbiome researchers by providing a variety of standardized analysis pipelines assembled using tools that include QIIME, mothur, and bioBakery; [Read more]
The U.S. Medical Research Army Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) is conducting market research to identify parties capable of modernizing and providing sustained support to the Biodefense Laboratory System (BLMS) system at the U.S. [Read more]
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