Big data and empirical approaches to understanding diseases provide a limited picture of pathogenesis.

Luna DNA, Nebula Genomics, and other “bio-brokers” will allow customers to make money by granting access to their genetic and personal information for research purposes.

Americans and Australians aren’t far behind, according to a questionnaire of researchers.

In addition to programs geared towards transforming biologists into bioinformaticians, students need more raw material available for their education.

Combining genomic, clinical, and patient-reported data, the Metastatic Breast Cancer Project provides a unique resource for the cancer community.

Looking at words on many different levels

A few kilograms of DNA could theoretically store all of humanity’s data, but there are practical challenges to overcome.

Researchers devise numerous strategies to encode information into nucleic acids.

An open-access catalog of tens of thousands of human exome sequences highlights the power of a very large genomic dataset in pinpointing genes linked to rare diseases.