Two software houses providing bioinformatics and biosimulation for the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries - one based in the USA and one in Europe - have both announced that they are expanding into East Asia
Dassault Systèmes has launched a new open innovation laboratory and start-up accelerator programme
As part of its efforts to encourage interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), Maplesoft is sponsoring several educational events in the coming months. It has also just released MapleSim CAD Toolbox
Certara, which offers biosimulation for drug development, has just acquired the UK-based consultancy XenologiQ, and separately, has also released version 15 of its Simcyp population-based simulator software
Even when shes down the pub drinking her beer, Gloria Metrick cant stop thinking about informatics
Efforts to improve the way that biomolecules are represented got a boost this week when the Pistoia Alliance announced that it had selected quattro research GmbH to implement the HELM 2.0 project (Ambiguous HELM
The dream of a vendor-agnostic, holistic framework for laboratory data management has taken a step closer with the announcement by Allotrope Foundation that it has released the first production version of its flagship Allotrope Framework
Dell has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire EMC, while maintaining VMware as a publicly-traded company. The total price of the acquisition is reported to be approximately $67 billion dollars - the largest merger of two technology firms in history
Pointwise, a software company specialising in grid generation and pre-processing software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), has been awarded a 2-year, $1.2 million contract from the US Air Force Materiel Command, part of the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC), located at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee
The Allotrope Foundation, an industry consortium specifically focused on the development of technology solutions for data handling in research, has developed the Allotrope Data Format (ADF), an advanced data structure that marks a major step forward in its efforts to harmonise laboratory data formats
Robert Roe looks at research from the University of Alaska that is using HPC to change the way we look at the movement of ice sheets
Robert Roe talks to cooling experts to find out what innovation lies ahead for HPC users