July / August 2004

The development of LIMS will involve not only integrated data, but integration with enterprise applications, in Kevin Smith's view

We must move beyond software designed to solve single physics problems, according to Lars Langemyr

Clare Sansom talks to Janet Thornton, a pioneer of computing for the life sciences

Conrad Wolfram believes we should treat computers like cars: we should specify the problem and let the computer do the working out

Tom Wilkie looks at 10 years of scientific computing

Web services will offer a way for LIMS to integrate with enterprise resource planning systems, says Peter Rees

Rohit Khanna looks forward to the integration of instruments and software to master the mounds of data created in the lab

Dr John McAlister finds that scientific computing is not an end in itself but that success depends on it

Susie Stephens and Dennis Constantinou see Grid computing as the way to master the flood of information from the life sciences

Jack Little believes that model-based design is the best way to turn new ideas into real things