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Pistoia Alliance Launches New Map of Alliances project

Press Release | Pistoia Alliance | May 20, 2015

The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance of life science organizations that work together to lower barriers to innovation in R&D, has started a new project called Map of Alliances. The Map of Alliances project will catalogue the various life sciences consortia, partnerships, foundations and alliances in the life sciences sector and investigate how these collaborative efforts form an interconnected web of partnerships. The Map of Alliances project will see the Pistoia Alliance develop a comprehensive picture of how all these alliances, including those that involve commercial, not for profit and academic partners, are connected across the life sciences sector.

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Protein Map is an Open Resource for Health Research

Press Release | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | November 6, 2014

A decade after the completion of the blueprint of the human genome, the Human Protein Atlas program on Thursday launched a tissue-based atlas covering the genome's protein complement. Based on 13 million annotated images, an interactive database has been created to show the distribution of proteins in all major tissues and organs in the human body.

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Recursion Releases Open Source Data from Largest Ever Dataset of Biological Images, Inviting Data Science Community to Develop New and Improved Machine Learning Algorithms for the Life Sciences Industry

Press Release | Recursion | May 6, 2019

Recursion, a Fast Company "Most Innovative Company" and leader in the artificial intelligence for drug discovery movement, today announced it will open-source a glimpse of the massive biological dataset the company has been building for more than five years. At more than two petabytes, and across more than 10 million different biological contexts, Recursion's data is the world's largest image-based dataset designed specifically for the development of machine learning algorithms in experimental biology and drug discovery.

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Reinventing Investment: The Funding Landscape Of Life Science Shifts For Good

Nicole Fisher | Forbes.com | March 31, 2014

The legal landscape and requirements for a life sciences company to fundraise in the US are a nightmare, to put it gently. Guidelines changed recently with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, and the sheer number of investment strategies for a life science startup executive to understand and pursue are staggering.

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The tranSMART Foundation And BT Collaborate To Deliver Fast, Flexible Cloud-Based Applications To Life Science Organizations

Press Release | tranSMART Foundation, BT | April 30, 2014

BT joins the tranSMART Foundation to extend support to the developer community; companies to continue work on the next release of Translational Medicine Platform.

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The tranSMART Foundation Announces New Version of the tranSMART Open Source Data Sharing Platform for the Life Sciences Community

Press Release | The tranSMART Foundation | September 16, 2013

Open Platform Enables Scientists Around the Globe to More Quickly Advance their Research

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MALSI Day 2014

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
June 3, 2014 - 8:00am - 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Club of Boston
374 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215-2801
United States

The 7th Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation (MALSI) Day  is the biggest day for life sciences startups and innovation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This is a high-energy, hands-on event which brings together scientific leaders and business experts to mingle with scientists, post-docs, professors, entrepreneurs, innovators, and venture capitalists.

Can you still be creative? In every lab in every research institution and company, researchers are told that they should be creative.  But can researchers still be creative with the organizational and financial demands that are placed on research environments?

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Open PHACTS Conference: Linking Life Science Data: Design to Implementation, and Beyond

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
February 18, 2016 (All day) - February 19, 2016 (All day)
Location: 
Vienna
Austria

Open PHACTS will be hosting a two-day conference in Vienna, Austria on the 18–19 February, 2016. The conference will include a variety of expert speakers and open discussions on linking data in the life sciences domain. Day 1 will focus on what has been achieved so far in this domain, by the Open PHACTS project and by others. Discussions will include an overview of how the domain has evolved, demonstrations of what can be done with existing linked data, and a poster competition where you can show off your own uses of linked life science data.

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