St. Jude Cloud lets researchers view over 5,000 whole-genome, 5,000 whole-exome and 1,200 RNA-Seq datasets from more than 5,000 pediatric cancer patients and survivors.
Mountain View, California-based DNAnexus has closed a $58 million financing round led by Foresite Capital. Microsoft, TPG Biotech, WuXi NextCODE, GV (formerly Google Ventures), MidCap Financial and Claremont Creek Ventures also participated.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
“The thing that’s difficult to grasp from the outside is the velocity of knowledge gain in genomics. It is just amazing,” marveled Richard Daly, CEO of DNAnexus.
What pathogen is causing a patient's disease? A coalition of University of California researchers, doctors and Silicon Valley companies are working together to create a test that can diagnose whether a severely ill patient has a virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite.