Integration of IT and healthcare advanced through multi-year agreement: HP and Partners HealthCare today announced the extension of a successful five-year, multi-million dollar agreement to develop software and implement hardware and services supporting Partners’ efforts to accelerate clinical genomics and advance personalized medicine. This phase of the collaboration focuses on extending Partners’ technology infrastructure, especially data storage capabilities, to address the challenges posed by next-generation sequencing technologies. The increase in genetic and genomic data output from these sequencing technologies will require a cost-effective, high-performance computing storage environment. “To turn the vision of personalized medicine into reality requires the convergence of IT, research and healthcare,” said John Glaser, chief information officer, Partners HealthCare. “We believe the vision of personalized medicine, where…

An international collaboration directed by an Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher has performed the first-ever atomic-detail computer simulation of how proteins vibrate in a crystal.