Elsevier and ExactCure recently announced a collaboration to develop and offer to hospitals – without charge – drug-specific exposure models for 20 already approved medicines that are being tested as potential treatments for Covid-19.
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02 October 2005
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
02 July 2005
Felix Grant has been having text message conversations with a family of rocks, then analysing them with the latest S-Plus
02 July 2005
Dave Champagne, head of Thermo's informatics division
02 July 2005
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
02 July 2005
Peter Rees looks at a piece of old technology that is finding new uses in laboratory information management systems
02 July 2005
Hermann Lederer reports on the DEISA Consortium, a major step towards an integrated European HPC infrastructure
02 July 2005
Simon White believes that information can be better shared if everyone makes use of ontologies
02 May 2005
Computing in the life sciences used to be about gene and protein sequences; now researchers are adopting a systems approach, reports Clare Sansom
02 May 2005
The productivity of Felix Grant's information searches has risen a thousand-fold with new software
02 May 2005
In different disciplines and across companies of different sizes, Tom Wilkie finds convergent trends of integration and interoperability that will shape scientific computing
02 May 2005
John Murphy profiles a pioneer of geographical information systems
02 May 2005
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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