Enterprise content management systems are helping organise scientific information while laboratory systems are starting to incorporate data from elsewhere in organisations. Siân Harris reports on how these two worlds are coming together

Clare Sansom on the evolution of structural bioinformatics

Paul Schreier examines LAN eXtensions for Instruments, a PC-instrument interface standard that should eventually put GPIB out to pasture

David Robson explores the latest initiatives driving the development of high-performance computing in Europe

Felix Grant on why statistics and agriculture are such natural bedfellows

Michael Resch, director of the Stuttgart High Performance Computer Centre