Research News

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.

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.

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.

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).