Analysis & opinion

17 May 2007

David Robson finds that the semantic web is on the brink of realisation, in scientific research at least, with profound implications for electronic laboratory notebooks.

30 April 2007

A currently unpublished report has revealed a lack of education and understanding about the correct approach to bioinformatics could place unnecessary strain on life sciences companies in years to come.

23 March 2007

David Robson finds communication is key to the growing wave of systems biology research across Europe.

23 February 2007

Due to launch this autumn, the HECToR (High End Computing Terascale Resources) will provide academic users across the UK with previously unheard of processing power.

06 February 2007

A new study from IT market intelligence service IDC has revealed that competition is heating up among vendors of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in Western Europe.

17 January 2007

Microsoft Research and INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science, have opened the Microsoft Research - INRIA Joint Centre in Orsay, France.

18 December 2006

Professor Jaroslav Stark from Imperial College London's Department of Mathematics has been appointed the new director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Integrative Systems Biology at Imperial College (CISBIC).

28 November 2006

November has seen an increased interest in high-performance computing, with the Supercomputing 2006 conference, and The Mathworks and Interactive Supercomputing both upgrading their parallel computing software.

03 November 2006

Thermo Electron Corporation has established a new local customer support centre for its informatics software and services in Dammam, in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia this September.

25 October 2006

Daniel Goodman won a best paper award at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting for devising a workflow language, Martlet, that will be used to aid climage change prediction.

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