Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=855c1ee9-2bd8-42f2-9b93-50d14a584b26&Preview=1 Date 10/4/2011 Company Name Gluster Mailing Address 691 S. Milpitas Blvd. Milpitas, CA 95035 Company Description Gluster delivers an open storage software platform focused on simplifying the task of storing and managing the explosive growth of unstructured data. Website http://www.Gluster.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount $136,000,000 Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A … Continue reading “Red Hat Acquires Gluster for $136,000,000”
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Complete Genomics, Scripps To Sequence 1,000 Old Folks’ Genomes to Find Secret to Long Life
Nobody a year ago could have realistically imagined sequencing 1,000 genomes of old, healthy people just to see what might be their secret to long and healthy life. But Mountain View, CA-based Complete Genomics and the Scripps Health system in San Diego are looking to take advantage of the advances in super-fast, super-cheap sequencing to … Continue reading “Complete Genomics, Scripps To Sequence 1,000 Old Folks’ Genomes to Find Secret to Long Life”
Under the Radar
From the event website: “Under the Radar is returning for our 18th conference in Mountain View, CA. As Silicon Valley’s most effective innovation showcase and business development conference, we continue to bring leading decision makers together with pre-vetted startups that are disrupting the way traditional business is run. With the consumerization of IT and the … Continue reading “Under the Radar”
Intel, Mobeam, Coupons.com: Bay Area BizTech News By the Numbers
Time for our data-driven roundup of business and technology news and deals in the San Francisco Bay Area. From biggest to smallest: $6.3 billion—the aggregate value of the 101 merger-and-acquisition deals involving venture-backed companies in the third quarter of 2011—an 8 percent increase over the second quarter, according to data released today by Thomson Reuters … Continue reading “Intel, Mobeam, Coupons.com: Bay Area BizTech News By the Numbers”
MongoSV
MongoSV is an annual one-day conference in Silicon Valley dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB. Information and registration here.
Sangamo Fails Diabetic Neuropathy Study, Falls Back on HIV, Other Programs
Sangamo Biosciences’ lead drug candidate has flunked its biggest test yet in clinical trials, and the company said this morning that it’s time to move on to other programs. The Richmond, CA-based company (NASDAQ: [[ticker:SGMO]]) said today that SB-509 failed in a study of 170 patients that randomly assigned patients with diabetic neuropathy to a … Continue reading “Sangamo Fails Diabetic Neuropathy Study, Falls Back on HIV, Other Programs”
Lee Davenport, A Technological Hero, Dies at 95: Here are His 7 Rules for Fostering Innovation
Over the weekend, I learned that one of my heroes, Lee Davenport, had just passed away. Lee died of cancer at the age of 95 in his longtime home of Greenwich, CT. That’s where I first met him in 1994, when I was researching a book about the MIT Radiation Laboratory, the World War II … Continue reading “Lee Davenport, A Technological Hero, Dies at 95: Here are His 7 Rules for Fostering Innovation”
Why Universities Are Key to the Future of Biotech, and How UCSF’s Chief is Showing the Way
These are hard times at universities in America. State support is dwindling, tuition is booming, and federal research dollars are in jeopardy. Morale has taken a beating. But U.S. academic research centers are still the driving force for innovative new medicines, like always. And anyone who cares about U.S. universities should pay attention to what’s … Continue reading “Why Universities Are Key to the Future of Biotech, and How UCSF’s Chief is Showing the Way”
Reinventing the Board
Imagine a world where technology companies are more successful and grow faster because of the strategic help and guidance from their boards of directors. Or, at least imagine a world where they don’t suffer from unhelpful, or worse, problematic boards that consume management’s precious time. Some commentators like Steve Blank, Jeff Bussgang, Brad Feld, and … Continue reading “Reinventing the Board”
Quantenna Communications Lands $1,603,540 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7fffe923-fb54-4d69-aeac-214a69bdb937&Preview=1 Date 10/3/2011 Company Name Quantenna Communications Mailing Address 3450 W Warren Ave Fremont, CA 94538 Company Description Quantenna Communications Inc., is a fabless semiconductor company creating disruptive next generation MIMO based wireless chips with game-changing size, power, and performance characteristics. Website http://www.quantenna.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $1,603,540 Transaction Round Undisclosed … Continue reading “Quantenna Communications Lands $1,603,540 New Funding”
MoBeam Garners $4,900,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4823d980-7681-4ef7-95d0-883b0bbfea5e&Preview=1 Date 10/3/2011 Company Name MoBeam Mailing Address 20450 Stevens Creek Blvd Cupertino, CA 95014 Company Description MoBeam Inc. applies its patented technology to transform the consumer-retail interaction and create multiple layers of value across the entire consumer products and retail industry, with clear benefits to both consumers and retailers. Website http://www.mobeam.com … Continue reading “MoBeam Garners $4,900,000 Series A Funding Round”
Axcient Receives $15,500,000 Series C Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f1537373-391b-430a-93a6-a9a140e44b56&Preview=1 Date 10/3/2011 Company Name Axcient Mailing Address 2761 Marine Way Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description Axcient offers the first plug-and-play data protection service to make business continuity and online backup simple for small and medium sized businesses (SMB). Axcient incorporates an onsite data backup and replication management appliance with offsite … Continue reading “Axcient Receives $15,500,000 Series C Financing”
Enkata Receives $4,400,000 Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fa47afc3-b2c0-4a53-8853-f64db3ce4367&Preview=1 Date 10/3/2011 Company Name Enkata Mailing Address 2121 S. El Camino Real San Mateo, CA 94403 Company Description Enkata is the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Performance Management for customer operations. Enkata’s analytics-powered applications combine best-practice metrics, personalized dashboards, decision analytics and integrated workflow to improve the effectiveness of … Continue reading “Enkata Receives $4,400,000 Series C Funding”
Typekit Receives New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=48502654-e8bc-49c3-b027-5d9ea428f046&Preview=1 Date 10/3/2011 Company Name Typekit Mailing Address 766-770 Valencia Street Third Floor San Francisco , CA 94101 Company Description The company develops web-native typography. Website http://www.typekit.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed by the parties.
Coupons Secures $30,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d21bdcbe-9e98-4615-a0e5-af071285c324&Preview=1 Date 10/3/2011 Company Name Coupons Mailing Address 400 Logue Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description Coupons, Inc.’s core couponing, customer acquisition, and e-mail marketing services provide clients with creation, distribution, tracking, and reporting of consumer-printed coupons that can be used for traditional in-store redemption. Website http://www.coupons.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Coupons Secures $30,000,000 New Financing Round”
Adobe Systems Acquires Typekit for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=48502654-e8bc-49c3-b027-5d9ea428f046&Preview=1 Date 10/3/2011 Company Name Typekit Mailing Address 766-770 Valencia Street Third Floor San Francisco , CA 94101 Company Description The company develops web-native typography. Website http://www.typekit.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed by the parties.
Vinod Khosla: A Brutally Honest VC Tells Startup Weekenders to Make an Impact
Vinod Khosla admits he’s not really known as a polite guy. But he comes by it honestly. “I sort of had a habit at age 12 of insulting priests in India, because it was fun for me. I was a troll,” Khosla said Friday. “There is fun in that. If there’s a lot of conventional … Continue reading “Vinod Khosla: A Brutally Honest VC Tells Startup Weekenders to Make an Impact”
Geron Names Chip Scarlett, Former Proteolix, Tercica Boss, as New CEO
Geron has found a new CEO as it moves ahead in the new world of clinical trials with embryonic stem cells. Menlo Park, CA-based Geron (NASDAQ: [[ticker:GERN]]) said that biotech veteran John “Chip” Scarlett has been named the company’s new CEO and member of the board. Scarlett, an endocrinologist by training, is best known for … Continue reading “Geron Names Chip Scarlett, Former Proteolix, Tercica Boss, as New CEO”
Psilos, Box, Blekko: Bay Area BizTech By the Numbers
It’s time for our data-driven news roundup. From the biggest number to the smallest: $400 million—The target size of a new venture fund being raised by health IT investor Psilos Group, according to a report today in PE Hub. The firm has offices in Corte Madera, CA, New York, and Santa Fe, NM. Psilos partner … Continue reading “Psilos, Box, Blekko: Bay Area BizTech By the Numbers”
Genomic Health Wins Medicare Coverage for High-Priced Colon Cancer Test
Health insurers usually aren’t wild about paying big bucks for diagnostic tests, and things probably won’t get easier for diagnostic companies as Medicare’s budget comes under increasing pressure. But Redwood City, CA-based Genomic Health has found a way to persuade that very big insurer that its test for predicting the risk of colon cancer recurrence … Continue reading “Genomic Health Wins Medicare Coverage for High-Priced Colon Cancer Test”
Can Crowdsourcing Make a Dent in Unemployment? Ask MobileWorks
Jobs are the single biggest political issue of the day in the U.S., and rightly so. As of August, the official unemployment rate in the United States stood at 9.1 percent. That was down one point from the October 2009 peak of 10.1 percent, but still higher than at any time since the 1930s, with … Continue reading “Can Crowdsourcing Make a Dent in Unemployment? Ask MobileWorks”
Karmasphere Obtains $6,000,000 Series B Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4d0d0dfa-f58a-4107-b2cf-e4b51ba11375&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2011 Company Name Karmasphere Mailing Address 19200 Stevens Creek Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014 Company Description Karmasphere is a business analytics software company bringing Apache Hadoop power to the desktop. Karmasphere enables companies to unlock the competitive advantages within their large datasets by providing an easy-to-use class of client-side software. Karmasphere’s … Continue reading “Karmasphere Obtains $6,000,000 Series B Financing Round”
Open Science Summit
The Open Science Summit unites researchers, life science industry professionals, students, patients and other stakeholders to discuss the future of collaborative science and innovation. This year’s conference features in-depth sessions on new models for drug discovery and clinical trials, personal genomics, the patent system, the future of scientific publications, and more. For more information on … Continue reading “Open Science Summit”
Lithium Helps Companies Rev Up Customer Support by Deputizing ‘Superfans’
If you need help with a glitchy Logitech mouse or webcam and you happen to stop by the company’s online support forum, you might notice a bunch of posts from a guy calling himself KachiWachi. Since 2006, when he started contributed to the forum, KachiWachi has answered more than 45,000 questions from Logitech customers. He … Continue reading “Lithium Helps Companies Rev Up Customer Support by Deputizing ‘Superfans’”
Excerpt from “The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America”
No particular group, right or left or somewhere else, is immune from the sense that change is accelerating at an ever faster pace with each passing year. The experience of too-rapid change, whether trivial or profound, is a characteristic of modernity. Information technologies are perhaps the sentinel sources and examples of what Alvin Toffler called “future shock” in 1970, right … Continue reading “Excerpt from “The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America””
Intel Capital Leads $13M Round for SweetLabs in Bid to Re-Invent Desktop Experience
SweetLabs scored what could be construed as a Google seal of approval in April 2010 when the San Diego startup, then known as OpenCandy, landed $5 million in a Series B round of venture funding led by Google Ventures. Today, the four-year-old startup says it has scored a similar coup—raising $13 million in a Series … Continue reading “Intel Capital Leads $13M Round for SweetLabs in Bid to Re-Invent Desktop Experience”
The Polaris Express: Dogpatch Labs Says Goodbye Pier 38, Hello Palo Alto and Dublin
It’s official: Waltham, MA-based Polaris Venture Partners is announcing a couple of moves related to its network of Dogpatch Labs startup incubators. One bit of news involves the fate of the original Dogpatch in San Francisco. The other piece is about a brand new (and long-awaited) international site that is opening today. (Dogpatch Labs already … Continue reading “The Polaris Express: Dogpatch Labs Says Goodbye Pier 38, Hello Palo Alto and Dublin”
Xconomist of the Week: Pfizer’s Barbara Dalton to Speak at Our NY Life Sciences 2031 Forum
As Pfizer’s vice president of venture capital, Barbara Dalton will bring two valuable perspectives to Xconomy’s Life Sciences 2031 panel discussion on October 13: that of a VC and that of a pharma executive. Dalton, who was trained in immunology and virology at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, began her career as a research scientist … Continue reading “Xconomist of the Week: Pfizer’s Barbara Dalton to Speak at Our NY Life Sciences 2031 Forum”
Blekko Lands $30,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=595b3b42-2e4c-4f1a-971d-6ff554274150&Preview=1 Date 9/29/2011 Company Name Blekko Mailing Address 100 Marine Pkwy Redwood Shores, CA 94065 Company Description blekko is a better way to search the web by using slashtags. slashtags search only the sites you want and cut out the spam sites. use friends, experts, community or your own slashtags to slash … Continue reading “Blekko Lands $30,000,000 New Round”
TwitVid Secures $6,500,000 Series B Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d810232d-254c-414c-aa39-772e19179e40&Preview=1 Date 9/29/2011 Company Name TwitVid Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94110 Company Description Twitvid is the leading video sharing service for Twitter, providing the fastest, easiest way to share videos. In three simple steps, videos are shared with all your friends and followers via your Twitter stream. Website http://www.twitvid.com Transaction … Continue reading “TwitVid Secures $6,500,000 Series B Funding Round”
Yieldex Lands $10,000,000 Series C Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cf49cbbd-1e98-4dfe-bb7c-97908bfccad6&Preview=1 Date 9/29/2011 Company Name Yieldex Mailing Address 204 E 2nd Ave San Mateo, CA 94401 Company Description Yieldex is a developer of software for the allocation of advertising inventory with the objective of CPM optimization. Website http://www.yieldex.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $10,000,000 Transaction Round Series C Proceeds Purposes We … Continue reading “Yieldex Lands $10,000,000 Series C Financing”
NetBase Solutions Receives New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1f8bf865-04c4-4205-9d0c-8495b2402337&Preview=1 Date 9/29/2011 Company Name NetBase Solutions Mailing Address 2087 Landings Drive Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description We are the insight discovery company. Founded by innovators Jonathan Spier and Michael Osofsky, NetBase develops and markets a next-generation semantic technology that reads and understands the English language. This technology is the basis … Continue reading “NetBase Solutions Receives New Financing”
NeoPhotonics Acquires Santur for $46,700,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d31c37a3-2067-48e4-a98c-ff09648977b8&Preview=1 Date 9/29/2011 Company Name Santur Mailing Address 40931 Encyclopedia Circle Fremont, CA 94538 Company Description Santur’s mission is to enable next generation optical networks by providing innovative, reliable and affordable optical components. Website http://www.santurcorp.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount $46,700,000 Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms The acquisition price was made … Continue reading “NeoPhotonics Acquires Santur for $46,700,000”
The Tech Awards: 2011 Nexus Conference at Santa Clara University
The Tech Awards, presented by the Center for Science, Technology & Society at Santa Clara University and the Tech Museum, will be held on Oct. 19 at the Locatelli Center at Santa Clara University. Awards will be given to honor successes in social entrepreneurship. For more information on how to register, click here.
Onyx Turns in FDA Application for Second Cancer Drug
Onyx Pharmaceuticals was delayed a bit in its quest to start selling another cancer drug in the U.S., but now it has gotten its application together and hit the ball into the FDA’s court. South San Francisco-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ONXX]]) said today it has turned in its application to start selling carfilzomib in the … Continue reading “Onyx Turns in FDA Application for Second Cancer Drug”
Moneyball—It’s Not Just About Baseball
Are we trying to sell jeans here or are we trying to win baseball games?—Billy Beane, Oakland A’s General Manager Baseball scouts used to judge players on looks. Moneyball, as a method, revolutionized the evaluation of baseball talent. It correlates, connects and coagulates all performance metrics (aka stats) to determine offensive or defensive production per player. … Continue reading “Moneyball—It’s Not Just About Baseball”
Flite Builds an App Store for Advertisers
Back in August I wrote about Flite, a San Francisco startup that transformed itself from a developer of Web widgets into a cloud-based platform for rich-media, interactive ads. Today the company is taking another step, introducing a marketplace for ad components or mini-apps where advertisers will be able to pick and choose which apps to … Continue reading “Flite Builds an App Store for Advertisers”
Achievers, Yammer, Zenverge: Bay Area BizTech By the Numbers
Time for our periodic rendition of the local deals keeping the Bay Area technology sector humming. $300 million—The amount of fresh capital being handed over to newly independent Investor Growth Capital of New York and Menlo Park, CA, by its parent company Investor AB, as Xconomy’s Arlene Weintraub explained yesterday. $160 million—The valuation San Francisco- … Continue reading “Achievers, Yammer, Zenverge: Bay Area BizTech By the Numbers”
Why Amazon’s Tablet Matters: It’s Not a Computer. It’s a Store.
Updated 11 am Pacific The tech world is going into hype-tastic overdrive today with the release of Amazon’s new tablet computer. If the predictions and previews are correct, the new device could be a big competitor to the market-defining Apple iPad and cement Amazon as a major player in the computing game. But this isn’t … Continue reading “Why Amazon’s Tablet Matters: It’s Not a Computer. It’s a Store.”
Join Us for a Live ‘Tweetchat’ on the Future of RNAi, With Guest John Maraganore of Alnylam
Usually when I want to chat with someone, I still pick up that 19th century contraption called the telephone or sometimes meet in person. Each of those communications methods has its merits, but you can bring a lot more voices to a conversation through a real-time chat like the ones happening now on Twitter. So … Continue reading “Join Us for a Live ‘Tweetchat’ on the Future of RNAi, With Guest John Maraganore of Alnylam”
Investor Growth Capital Starts Anew as Independent VC Firm, With Evergreen Fund Worth $1.3B
Today Investor Growth Capital (IGC), which has offices in New York City and Menlo Park, CA, announced that it is breaking free of its parent company, Stockholm, Sweden-based Investor AB. The newly independent IGC is hitting the ground with $300 million in fresh capital from Investor AB and a portfolio of companies with a total … Continue reading “Investor Growth Capital Starts Anew as Independent VC Firm, With Evergreen Fund Worth $1.3B”
Fundly Lands $5,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=93a848bd-de0c-4b33-8181-0e11381aeb70&Preview=1 Date 9/28/2011 Company Name Fundly Mailing Address 2390 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description The company operates a website and service that allows users to raise funds for their causes. Website http://www.fundly.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not … Continue reading “Fundly Lands $5,000,000 New Round”
Box.net Lands $50,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=019c07c8-e930-4f8b-9f40-34e48ecb4ff2&Preview=1 Date 9/28/2011 Company Name Box.net Mailing Address 220 Portage Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description Launched officially in March of 2006, Box.net currently provides secure online file storage and sharing functionality to over 500,000 registered users, serving files to millions of people across the world. Box.net’s unique platform allows personal … Continue reading “Box.net Lands $50,000,000 New Funding Round”
ClearSlide Lands $11,000,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=469854dd-bcbb-4f77-9f37-48392020fccc&Preview=1 Date 9/28/2011 Company Name ClearSlide Mailing Address 625 2nd Street 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description We provide a fully web-based service designed specifically for the communication needs of sales teams. We strive to make customer facing interactions more effective and to ultimately help sales close more business. We’ve … Continue reading “ClearSlide Lands $11,000,000 Series A Financing”
Box Lands $62,400,000 Series D Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=019c07c8-e930-4f8b-9f40-34e48ecb4ff2&Preview=1 Date 9/28/2011 Company Name Box Mailing Address 220 Portage Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description Launched officially in March of 2006, Box currently provides secure online file storage and sharing functionality to over 500,000 registered users, serving files to millions of people across the world. Box.net’s unique platform allows personal … Continue reading “Box Lands $62,400,000 Series D Financing”
From the Kinect to AIDS Vaccines: Rick Rashid Reflects on 20 Years of Microsoft Research
How many top-level Microsoft executives have been in the same job for 20 years? By Rick Rashid’s count, he’s the only one. That sort of continuity says a lot about Microsoft Research, the in-house invention factory that Rashid was recruited from Carnegie Mellon to run in 1991. It’s still growing—up to about 850 PhDs and … Continue reading “From the Kinect to AIDS Vaccines: Rick Rashid Reflects on 20 Years of Microsoft Research”
MongoDB Wizards Work to Make 10gen the Red Hat of Databases
Database designers are the secret wizards of the Web revolution, and they’ve been busy writing new spells. Deep inside the castle at each of today’s leading Web companies there’s at least one custom “NoSQL” database keeping things running: Google has Big Table, Amazon has Dynamo, Facebook built Cassandra, and LinkedIn has Project Voldemort. Seriously. In … Continue reading “MongoDB Wizards Work to Make 10gen the Red Hat of Databases”
Siluria Pockets $20M For Making Cleaner Plastics, Fuels
San Francisco-based Siluria Technologies has raised another $20 million to build on its early lab work, in turning one of the most abundant substances on the planet into a renewable resource for making plastics, fuels, and specialty chemicals. Siluria said today it has raised $20 million in a Series B financing led by The Wellcome … Continue reading “Siluria Pockets $20M For Making Cleaner Plastics, Fuels”
Unlimited Abilities: A View from the MedtechVision Conference
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. —Ralph Waldo Emerson In a world thick with healthcare conferences, MedtechVision, held September 15-16 at the Rosewood Hotel in Menlo Park, CA, stood out, both for its quality of content and for its participants. “I hadn’t given any thought to the fact that it … Continue reading “Unlimited Abilities: A View from the MedtechVision Conference”
Complete Genomics, PacBio CEOs to Lead Off “Computing in the Age of the $1K Genome” Oct. 24
Complete Genomics and PacBio are two of the companies pumping out huge volumes of DNA data that needs to be kept on computers somewhere. So I figured it would be cool to get the leaders of both companies to sit down and talk about what they are doing to deal with one of their big … Continue reading “Complete Genomics, PacBio CEOs to Lead Off “Computing in the Age of the $1K Genome” Oct. 24″