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January/ February 2005

The beat goes on

1 January 2005

A well (or badly!) timed baseball to the chest can cause cardiac fibrillation. Ray Girvan explores how science is unlocking the secrets of the human heart

The science of the sound of the heart

1 January 2005

Felix Grant 'sonified' his friends' heartbeats and found that young men respond to popular music's base rhythm, but young women to female vocals

LIMS AND ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION

1 January 2005

No laboratory is an island and laboratory software has to talk to enterprise resource planning software, as Mark Gonzalez explains

Better records lead to faster science

1 January 2005

Electronic signatures can bring a ninefold increase in laboratory throughput, Peter Rees discovered. But first, companies may have to throw away popular software

November / December 2004

Teaching computers to think and play games

1 November 2004

John Murphy talks to Christopher Bishop, assistant director of the Microsoft Research Laboratory, Cambridge

How to capture data to share

1 November 2004

Electronic lab notebooks can help researchers in small as well as large companies, Peter Rees discovered

How software can optimise laboratory operations

1 November 2004

Powerful scientific instruments need powerful software, but help is at hand in simplifying the complexity, writes James Aitken

September / October 2004

Count me in

1 September 2004

Felix Grant believes that software can open up the big ideas in mathematics to the wider public, democratising the subject, and making it part of popular culture

Adding value through support

1 September 2004

Although sometimes their role is overlooked, distributors can add value to scientific software through the technical support they provide. John Murphy talked to Adept Scientific, one of the largest distributors

Go with the workflow

1 September 2004

If the trend is towards standardisation, how can LIMS be tailored to fit individual customers? The answer lies with workflows, according to Colin Thurston

Standardise, centralise, enterprise

1 September 2004

Integrating LIMS with enterprise resource planning software is topical, but Peter Rees found that standardising and centralising are essential first steps

The big picture for nanotechnology and computational science

1 September 2004

It's a science about working on the small scale, but it has big promise. Michael Francis of Accelrys looks to the future of nanotechnology

July / August 2004

A sporting chance for science

1 July 2004

Looking for something to keep you fit? Michael Kenward surfs for sport science

Understanding images on the large scale

1 July 2004

After text-mining, Doug Paxson believes images will be next to be mined for information

Informatics for Integrated Science

1 July 2004

Bruce von Herrmann believes that better informatics is the only way to meet the challenge of increasing complexity in the life sciences

Data beyond words - the future of scientific communication

1 July 2004

Paul R. Topping scents a sea change in the way scientific research will be created, published, and read in the coming decade

Turning the tide of pharmaceutical productivity

1 July 2004

A combination of youth and maturity is required for the successful application of computing in the life sciences, according to Neil Kipling

Mathematics and models

1 July 2004

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

Information - the lifeblood of life science

1 July 2004

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

Scientific computation is the key to success

1 July 2004

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

Neither instruments nor informatics alone

1 July 2004

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

LIMS services on the web

1 July 2004

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

Integration, Integration, Integration

1 July 2004

Tom Wilkie looks at 10 years of scientific computing

Changing the world with technical computing

1 July 2004

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

Predicting protein structure and function

1 July 2004

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

Only multiphysics meets future requirements

1 July 2004

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

Partnership and integration the future for LIMS

1 July 2004

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

May / June 2004

The future of computational science

1 May 2004

Computational science will go deeper and wider in the next 10 years. But Scott Kahn believes that the most profound changes will come through the integration of methods and domains

ChemAnalytics offers access to chemical structures and analytic data

1 May 2004

Antony Williams believes that organisations need to recognise the value of organising themselves to integrate chemical structure and analytical information

Trends in instrument-to-LIMS interfacing

1 May 2004

Robert Pavlis believes there has never been a more exciting time in instrument interfacing

Moving ahead with advancing technology

1 May 2004

Robert Massie and Ramond D'Angelo believe that, as the physical limitations of processing, storing, and delivering information diminish, the possibilities of the digital research environment keep expanding

Redefining disease

1 May 2004

Guy Lefever sees seven new technologies, all related to scientific computing, transforming the face of medicine

Bringing together knowledge and maths

1 May 2004

C. James Cooper looks forward to an exciting decade, as the universal language of mathematics underpins efforts to integrate knowledge from different domains

The future of virtual instrumentation

1 May 2004

James Truchard believes that performance will improve, while costs and development time will decrease, making engineers more productive through the use of virtual instrumentation

The Web that changed the world

1 May 2004

Scientific Computing World appeared just as the World Wide Web was escaping from particle physics. Michael Kenward reflects on a decade of rapid progress

Meeting in the middle?

1 May 2004

Steve Maginn looks at the two ends of the chemistry software industry

A return to innovation

1 May 2004

Chris Randles praises XML as a basis for innovation and technical communication

Put down that pen and paper

1 May 2004

The electronic lab notebook has been heralded before, says Peter Rees. But it might just happen this time

March / April 2004

Stake your life on a LIMS

1 March 2004

Doctors depend on pathology labs for accurate diagnoses, and path labs depend on ever more sophisticated LIMS, Peter Rees reports

Stuck in the middleware

1 March 2004

Grid computing won't happen without glue to hold it together, as Michael Kenward finds when investigating middleware

From correcting errors to building quantum computers

1 March 2004

John Murphy profiles the Director of the Institute of Quantum Computing at Waterloo University, Ontario

January / February 2004

Biology meets IT... again

1 January 2004

More than bioinformatics, systems biology is the coming thing, even if at first it confused Michael Kenward

Looking forward to a substitute for human vision

1 January 2004

John Murphy profiles Rama Chellappa, pioneer of image processing and computer vision

Saturn, slime molds, and life support

1 January 2004

Robust control theory has some surprising applications, and software can ease the process, writes Brian Cogan

November / December 2003

Food firm benefits from information system

1 November 2003

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

The measures of Mankind

1 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

Chemical brain in a box

1 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

Acquisitions and mergers take centre stage

1 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

September / October 2003

Is life too complex?

1 September 2003

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

Integrated science opens the road to informatics

1 September 2003

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

Software to promote knowledge transfer

1 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

Still hitting home runs

1 September 2003

John Murphy profiles the computational chemistry pioneer and baseball fanatic

July / August 2003

internet research on the internet

1 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

Chromatography integrates well

1 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

big pharma learns how to love information technology

1 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

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