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HPC for the desktop

Gemma Simpson looks at how software and hardware vendors are creating desktop HPC solutions specifically for scientists

The man who built ISC

John Murphy meets Hans Meuer, who has been involved with the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany since it began.

A career in HPC

Do you have a zest for problem solving and a passion for science? David Robson finds out why work as a high-performance computing consultant may be the ideal job for you

Virtual bodies

Paul Schreier examines progress towards accurate models built on the systems biology approach

Living the vision

Professor Kathy Yelick, director, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

In profile: Chemical Abstracts Service

With its family of services for research scientists and information professionals, CAS aims to provide the best digital environment to search, retrieve, analyse and link chemical information.

Beyond the skies

Felix Grant looks to the heavens and sees scientific software shining bright

In profile: IDBS

Founded in 1989 and privately owned, IDBS is a leading provider of advanced software solutions for the drug discovery industry.

Driving innovation

Paul Schreier touches on the many uses of scientific software in the automotive industry

When two worlds collide

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

The DNA deluge

Clare Sansom on how next-generation sequencing methods are creating challenges in the field of bioinformatics

The future of currents

Climate change and global warming are ever-present topics in the media, but how much can the predictioncs be trusted? David Robson investigates the trials of modelling such complex environmental and meteorlogical data.

From lab to enterprise

Tom Wilkie explores how laboratory data management applications are integrating more and more with software outside the lab, including enterprise resource planning software, thereby feeding into overall business management

Simple is often best

Choices of data acquisition software are clouded by a bewildering array of data formats. For successful integration from instrument to analysis package, the simplest option is often the best, discovers Sian Harris.

LIMS widens its reach

Laboratory Information Management Systems are coming out of the quality control lab and into some quite unexpected places, as Tom Wilkie discovers

An ELN by any other name

The market for electronic lab notebooks is growing apace, but opinions differ as to what this software actually does. Tom Wilkie and David Robson sampled some views

ELNs in action

David Robson discovers that ELNs are being used in a diverse range of applications

Providing the backbone to research and analysis

Whether organisations are analysing specimens from a wide range of different industries - or collecting more similar samples but on a scale that was previously unimaginable, a flexible and robust LIMS is essential, discovers Sian Harris

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