April 10, 2004
Increasing returns in Biology near?
In a slightly self serving speech to the Churchill Club recently, Randy Scott, CEO of Genomic Health, laid out the recent trends driving toward: The Dawn of Personalized Medicine :: AO
He basically is confirming a trend that I have been seeing for some time around the positive feedback loop starting to take hold around the human gnome. Basically the cost of sequencing the human Gnome is following Moores law. Cost half a much and be done twice as fast every 18-24 months. In 20 years the cost will be about the same as an MRI. Tha means individuals could have it done and get out of it a completely personalized treatment plan based on their exact genetic make up and tendancies to known afflictions. Wow. That treatment plan could also involve custom designed drugs targeted to the specific DNA make up of the individual. No more broad brush medicines that "tend to work in most cases". Quite interesting...
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March 22, 2004
Bundle o' BioIT links
I have been surfing looking for software ideas in the BIO IT space. Here are a bunch o links to interesting products and efforts that I have not had a chance to dive into, but want to at some point.
http://www.drugdisc.com/europe/default.asp?src=eu706
http://www.hum-molgen.de/bioinformatics/
http://cs.rockefeller.edu/index.php3?page=toolkit-rucs.sci_progs
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/search/
And some on alternative energy software.
http://www.energywatchdog.com/
http://www.abraxasenergy.com/pocketcontrols.php
http://www.abraxasenergy.com/activity_loggers.php
http://www.capterra.com/energy-management-software
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February 17, 2004
Design tools for life sciences
Teranode Corporation launches at Demo 2004 One of our investments just made a public launch of their electronic design tools at Demo 2004. The principal is that just like the silicon chip business and architecture business progressed to models that were too complex for the old analog design methods, the life sciences industry will eventually have to migrate as well. Terranode's VLX design suite is the first shot over this bow. More to come.
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