Features

Laboratory informatics
Chemical brain in a box
01 November 2003

ChemBrain doesn't look unusual. It has a straightforward Windows interface and dialogue boxes, albeit in an older style and perhaps slightly inelegant in places. But, aesthetics aside, ChemBrain is different, reports David Bradley

INTERNET REVIEW
The measures of Mankind
01 November 2003

People differ in many ways, which is why biometrics is a booming business and why Michael Kenward found a wealth of related websites

Laboratory informatics
Acquisitions and mergers take centre stage
01 November 2003

In this final review of 2003, Phillip Hill looks at the collaborations and concentrations that have taken place in the LIMS market this year

LIMS
Food firm benefits from information system
01 November 2003

J. Kelly Ganjei, Terry Smallmon and Charles Lee of LabVantage report how LIMS helped a food firm

Laboratory informatics
Software to promote knowledge transfer
01 September 2003

John P. Helfrich, from NuGenesis Technologies, believes that a new class of IT product can capture and manage scientific data to improve drug discovery

PROFILE
Still hitting home runs
01 September 2003

John Murphy profiles the computational chemistry pioneer and baseball fanatic

INTERNET REVIEW
Is life too complex?
01 September 2003

Complex systems are a growing area of research, and finding good sites can be complicated, says Michael Kenward

Laboratory informatics
Integrated science opens the road to informatics
01 September 2003

Annabel Sedgwick describes how Applied Biosystems is putting researchers firmly in the driving seat in managing their scientific projects

INTERNET REVIEW
internet research on the internet
01 July 2003

The Internet is itself a suitable case for research, as Michael Kenward found when surfing sites on the Web given over to research on the Web into the Web

Laboratory informatics
Chromatography integrates well
01 July 2003

The way to interface and integrate chromatography data systems is a major theme in this issue's review of laboratory information management systems, writes Phillip Hill

Laboratory informatics
big pharma learns how to love information technology
01 July 2003

Economic and business pressures are forcing drug companies to deploy computing, but there are still gaps between what users want and what can be achieved, says Peter Rees

HPC
The revealed grace of the mechanism: computing after Babbage
01 May 2003

Ray Girvan traces the rise of the machines - both digital and analogue - in an era of mechanical computation

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