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BCIL Bioinformatics BITP Application !!

Pranjali Yadav — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 04:34:56 -0500

BCIL Bioinformatics BITP Application Form 2015 logoGrab latest Information! Biotech Consortium India Limited has announced a notification for offering admission in Biotech Industrial Training Program. The organization has invited online application from 7th April 2015 BCIL Admission 2015. BCIL has conducted an entrance exam which is scheduled on 20th June 2015. Candidates those who are looking for this program just go for it and don’t miss this opportunity.

To apply for Biotech Industrial Training Programme the candidates should have 50% marks in B.Tech/BE/M.Tech Degree in Bio technology, bio process technology and other related disciplines form any recognized institution. The organization has decided application fee of Rs.500/- for all candidates and that should be paid through demand draft. Applicants who satisfy the organization requirement, they can take their steps forward.

Candidates should submit the online application before 10th May 2015. After registering the online application you need to take the hard copy of it and send through post. Print out of this application should be reached before 15th May 2015. All the latest updates like selection process, exam syllabus and other related information are updated soon at the main URL of the department and aspirants should keep in touch with this site. Further details of BCIL Bioinformatics BITP Application Form 2015 are explained below.

Organization: Biotech Consortium India Limited

Website URL: www.bcil.nic.in

Location: New Delhi

Course Name: Biotech Industrial Training Program

Exam Name: BCIL Entrance Exam

Educational Details: Applicants should complete their B.Tech/M.Tech/BE programs in Neuro- Science, Agricultural, Bio technology, bio process technology and other related disciplines having 50% aggregate from any authorized university.

Application Fee: For all candidates application fee is Rs.500/- and it will be paid through Demand Draft drawn in favour of BCIL, New Delhi.

How to Apply: Candidates who are willing to apply for this program they can apply through online mode. Then send the hard copy of registered application form to through post.

Important Dates

Opening Date of Submission Online Application Form: 7h April 2015

Closing Date of Submission of Online Application Form: 10th May 2015

Last Date of Receipt of Application Form: 15th May 2015

Exam Date: 20th June 2015

More at http://bcil.nic.in/default.htm

Linux operating system aimed at scientists

Pranjali Yadav — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:30:49 -0600

The Bio-Linux operating system is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), and the previous version was using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The developers only use LTS releases and that means that upgrades for this distro don't come along all that often.

This Linux distribution is aimed at scientists and it comes with more than 250 bioinformatics packages, 50 graphical applications and several hundred command line tools. And this is just skimming the surface of what the OS can do. Users have access to even more apps from the official repositories.

Bio-Linux is using an Ubuntu LTS version as its base

The fact that it uses Ubuntu LTS versions for the base is a good thing because it means its users won't have to worry about the support. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is supported until 2019, so people who are using Bio-Linux shouldn't have a problem.

"An updated Bio-Linux 8 version is now on the website in ISO and OVA versions. As usual, there is no need to download this version if you are an existing user. All updates to existing packages will be applied to your system through the update manager and new packages are all available via apt-get or Synaptic," reads the announcement.

The changelog also states that a problem that was preventing the desktop to not start on VirtualBox has been fixed, the QIIME and Bowtie-Bio tools have been upgraded, the pandaseq paired end assembler has been added, and the beginners tutorial specific to Bio-Linux 8 has been improved.

Check out the official announcement for a complete list of changes and updates. You can download Bio-Linux 8.0.5 right now from Softpedia and give it a spin. It has the Unity desktop and now it runs very well in virtual environments.

Reference @ http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bioinformatics-Distro-Bio-Linux-8-0-5-Now-Available-for-Download-469867.shtml

Interactive Market Intelligence

Pranjali Yadav — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:20:38 -0600

BioInformatics LLC, a premier research and advisory firm serving the life science industry, has launched groundbreaking, dynamic-data presentation platform, Interactive Market Intelligence— the only cloud-based market research analytics tool for the life science tools industry.

Superior to traditional PDF and PowerPoint reports, Interactive Market Intelligence allows end-users to filter, create and export literally thousands of views of data — all easily obtainable from a set of core metrics that include market, brand, customer and workflow analytics in well-defined segments of the life science market.

The Market for Real-Time PCR is the first in a series of topics to be explored using the Interactive Market Intelligence platform. The primary research analysis is based on a survey of 900+ international scientists performing qPCR in their laboratories.

Key data findings from "The Market for Real-Time PCR": Global market for qPCR in 2015 is estimated to be $3.6B; The average growth in qPCR throughput is expected to be at 9.8% in 2015; 22% of respondents are highly likely to switch primary suppliers of qPCR products; 50% of respondents use pre-designed primer/probe sets.

WuXi has acquired NextCODE Health

Pranjali Yadav — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:17:35 -0600

Shanghai, China-headquartered pharmatech company WuXi (NYSE: WX) has acquired NextCODE Health, a genomic analysis and bioinformatics company based in the USA.

The acquisition was made for $65 million in cash, and WuXi plans to merge its genome center with NextCODE Health to form a new company, WuXi NextCODE Genomics. The business will be headquartered in Shanghai and have operations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Reykjavik, Iceland.

With the huge unmet medical needs in diseases with a genetic component and the rapid advances in genomics and bioinformatics, now is the right time for WuXi to make a strategic investment in this field, and NextCODE is the right partner. This new venture of WuXi NextCODE Genomics will create important new genomic and bioinformatic products and services to help make personalized treatment and medicine a reality. It will also enable doctors to provide better treatments to patients.