Agilent, Oxford Gene Technology expand microarray and sequencing partnership

http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=65616&sid=2

Pre-natal DNA based diagnosis

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gene-security-network-to-present-at-the-american-society-for-reproductive-medicine-67th-annual-meeting-2011-10-17

This company specializes in identifying the infant's genotype for pre-natal diagnosis

Nominees for the 2011 Life Science Awards

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bioinformatics-llc-announces-the-nominees-for-the-2011-life-science-industry-awards-2011-09-21

This article has all the companies at the forefront of the bioinformatics industry.

Bioinformatics to grow 18% annually through 2017

http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5473584/bioinformatics-market-to-grow-18-annually-through-2017

UBC invents "lab on a chip"

http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2011/07/26/ubc-researchers-create-more-powerful-%E2%80%9Clab-on-a-chip%E2%80%9D-for-genetic-analysis/

This new system is very interesting- it separates the cells individually before doing the genetic analysis. Which makes a lot of sense. It's also apparently a lot cheaper than other systems that do the same thing. We'll keep our eyes on this one

MATLAB bioinf

http://www.mathworks.com/products/bioinfo/index.html
A great program for analyzing and visualizing genomic and/or proteomic data

Great Resource....

http://www.bioinformatics.ca/
This website has tons of great stuff on it:

Employment section
Workshops
Directory
etc...

If you're in the field and in Canada you have to check it out.

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