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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

Bull has announced the appointment of Andy Grant to the post of director for high-performance computing (HPC) and Big Data Practice

Terascala, the fast data company, has announced that Jamie Coffin, former vice president and general manager for Dell Healthcare and Life Science division, has joined Terascalas Board of Directors

Optibrium, a developer of software for drug discovery, has announced the appointment of Peter Hunt as Director of Computational Chemistry

Enterome bioscience, a developer of innovative disease management solutions based on a deep understanding of the gut microbiome, has announced that Alessandra Cervino has joined the company as head of discovery

Silicon Mechanics has announced the appointment of Daniel Chow as Chief Operating Officer

Halcyon Software has announced the appointment of Philip Pearson as senior sales manager for Europe

Dotmatics has announced the appointment of Richard Lingard as head of commercial operations