Features

Laboratory informatics
observing behaviour by computer
01 May 2002

Tom Wilkie spoke to Lucas Noldus, whose company produces computerised systems for tracking and observing animal behaviour. The applications, he found, stretch from new drugs to functional genomics

ASTRONOMY
Parallel efforts create a virtual sky
01 May 2002

Scientists are building a seamless, global, astronomical resource: a 'virtual observatory' that will supply data at all wavelengths through a common interface. Vanessa Spedding catches up with European initiatives

LIMS
The flow of knowledge
01 May 2002

If you think the words 'decisive' and 'fast-moving' could not appear in the same sentence as 'government-run utility lab', think again, as one large LIMS company bidding for business recently had to. Vanessa Spedding reports

IN PERSON: BRIAN DONNELLY
From banking to science
01 May 2002

Brian Donnelly, chairman and CEO of GeneticXchange, tells Tom Wilkie about the unexpected similarity between computing for life sciences and computing for big banks.

PROFILE
The pyramid builder of our modern age
01 March 2002

John Murphy profiles the leader of Cern's IT division in Switzerland.

STATISTICS
what does my molecule look like?
01 March 2002

The computer representation of compounds can certainly be chemically inspiring. David Bradley asks whether they come close to modelling what really goes on in the molecular world.

LIMS
Scientific Information Production comes to discovery
01 January 2002

Scott Deutsch looks beyond the traditional LIMS quality control approach to scientific information production.

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