The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) has appointed Professor Neil Hall as its new Director. He will join TGAC in April 2016 from the University of Liverpool where he is currently the Director of The Centre for Genomic Research
Digital Science, a technology company serving the needs of scientific research announced the award of a Catalyst Grant to enable Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) to launch two innovative online, interactive tools to help advance womens achievements in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM)
Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada Lovelace, a competition aims to inspire female students by asking what they would most like to communicate to Lovelace about 21st century technology
Geoff Lyon, CEO/CTO at CoolIT Systems, a global supplier of Direct Contact Liquid Cooling (DCLC), has been elected Chair of The Green Grids Liquid Cooling Work Group
Following hard on the heels of the announcement of initiatives in Europe to encourage women to take a more active and more visible role in scientific computing, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, is sponsoring 'Pearl Hacks' to encourage women into software engineering
In the bicentenary of the birth of Ada Lovelace, widely regarded as having devised the first computable algorithm and thus as the worlds first computer programmer, Tom Wilkie considers some initiatives to counter the widespread impression that scientific computing is the preserve of nerdy men
Dotmatics, a provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, has appointed Dr Rob Brown, from Biovia, Dassault Systèmes (formerly Accelrys), as vice-president of global informatics
In September Louis Culot became chief executive officer of BioData, a Digital Science company. He talked to Siân Harris about the informatics challenges presented by the growing volumes of laboratory data.
The Texas Advanced Computing Centre (TACC) at the University of Texas has appointed Dan C Stanzione as executive director
In sign of the growing importance of data as well as processing to HPC, the HPC integrator OCF has appointed a Big Data Scientist to the company
Elsevier and ExactCure recently announced a collaboration to develop and offer to hospitals – without charge – drug-specific exposure models for 20 already approved medicines that are being tested as potential treatments for Covid-19.
With the world’s focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, LIMS providers are working to develop solutions tailored to assist in the testing and management of virus samples.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) have released an open source drug discovery platform, VirtualFlow, that harnesses supercomputing power to screen potentially billions of small organic compound structures in parallel, in the hunt for promising new drug molecules.
When designing a component or system, where do you start? In days gone by, designers would literally go back to the drawing board, using their experience and expertise to develop a new concept.
Effective utilisation of computing tools is critical to both AI and HPC research, with recent projects in both fields highlighting the scientific benefit of carefully managing resources.
Advances in computer vision combined with AI computing are helping pathologists to more accurately identify subtypes of cancer - leading to better treatments for patients, explains Dan Ruderman.
