2008 Research news
Brain tumours diagnosed in seconds
20 June 2008
Researchers at the University of Warwick have devised an automated technique to give a preliminary analysis of the precise brain tumour type within seconds.
Data cave immerses scientists in the stars
11 June 2008
Scientists have access to a 3D visualisation Data Cave designed and installed by Mechdyne.
Latest perfSONAR MDM network monitoring tool released
3 June 2008
GÉANT2 has released the latest software bundle that is used to deliver the perfSONAR multi-domain monitoring (MDM) service across a number of key European National Research and Education Network (NREN) sites.
Starlims launches strategic informatics consulting unit
16 May 2008
Starlims Technologies has established a unit focused on providing strategic informatics consulting services to its customers.
e-Science centres win continued funding
2 May 2008
Four UK e-Science Centres have been awarded grants totalling just under £4m to continue developing new e-Science technologies and promote their adoption in academia and industry over the next five years.
Life Science workflows get proteomics website
16 April 2008
Agilent Technologies has launched a website that provides the latest instrument, software and workflow-related information to proteomics researchers.
DNAStar signs molecular genetics and biotechnology duo
14 April 2008
DNAStar and two institutes from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, have signed of a broad license agreement for the use of Lasergene sequence analysis software developed by DNAStar.
Protein data bank archives 50,000th molecule
14 April 2008
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) based at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) has put the 50,000th molecule structure into its archive, joining other structures vital to pharmacology, bioinformatics and education.
Kognito to produce WX2 database for Solaris
2 April 2008
Kognitio will develop, release and support a version of its WX2 analytical Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) that runs on the open source Solaris Operating System (OS).
Mathematica to go web 2.0
2 April 2008
The O'Reilly School of Technology (OST) and Wolfram Research have signed a special licensing agreement to develop a Web 2.0 version of Mathematica.
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LMS signs contract for acoustic simulation tech
27 March 2008
Black Sea scientists to get online
12 March 2008
20 million supercomputing hours for science
27 February 2008
Asia-Pacific research networking gets €18m investment
26 February 2008
Microsoft monitors species’ response to changing environments
26 February 2008
UK National Grid Service keeles over for first SRIF3 funded resource
19 February 2008
Ukraine joins GÉANT2 research network
12 February 2008
African scientists get connected
4 February 2008
ISIS gears up for a data deluge
29 January 2008
ERP market is back and booming, says IDC
28 January 2008
Cenetron uses Starlims for global clinical trials
24 January 2008
Mettler Toledo and Applied Biosystems streamline software integration
24 January 2008
European Commission fund genetics web project
22 January 2008
UK grant to boost operations research
22 January 2008
Eco-research to rack up 10.4 million hours of supercomputing time
22 January 2008
Computer recognises dog's bark
17 January 2008
Models reveal key factors that determine the structure of tissue
14 January 2008
UK supercomputer to weather climate change
14 January 2008
Computational simulations shine light on dark energy
11 January 2008
HPC simulation predicts hundreds of roving black holes
10 January 2008
Grid computing puts astronomical data in context
7 January 2008
Energy efficient supercomputer helps heat building
7 January 2008
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