‘Choosing a system that offers flexible configuration to match specific teams’ needs is key to digital transformation,’ says Sharon Williams, Interactive Software’s product director.
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The trend in laboratory informatics is towards integration of software with instruments and with enterprise resource planning software. Different vendors have different ways of achieving this end and it has driven take-overs and mergers, according to Peter Rees
Felix Grant has been having text message conversations with a family of rocks, then analysing them with the latest S-Plus
Dave Champagne, head of Thermo's informatics division
Mathematical operations on an array of pixels, made easy by software such as Matlab, can reveal the surface of Venus and the world of pre-Revolutionary Russia, Ray Girvan discovers
Peter Rees looks at a piece of old technology that is finding new uses in laboratory information management systems
Hermann Lederer reports on the DEISA Consortium, a major step towards an integrated European HPC infrastructure
Simon White believes that information can be better shared if everyone makes use of ontologies
Computing in the life sciences used to be about gene and protein sequences; now researchers are adopting a systems approach, reports Clare Sansom
The productivity of Felix Grant's information searches has risen a thousand-fold with new software
In different disciplines and across companies of different sizes, Tom Wilkie finds convergent trends of integration and interoperability that will shape scientific computing
John Murphy profiles a pioneer of geographical information systems
Recording research data electronically sounds like a good idea; but, Peter Rees asks, can you produce that information in court 50 years later?
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The pandemic has defined the development of laboratory software and technologies, as collaboration and remote working tools become requirements to a productive laboratory.