IBM Watson Health has announced a research initiative with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) aimed at defining a secure, efficient and scalable exchange of health data using blockchain technology.
A new study that is investigating bacterial movement, behaviour, and colony formation could help researchers to develop a better understanding of infections – paving the way to new antimicrobial treatments.
Scientists have developed an improved method for capturing longer DNA fragments - doubling the size up to 7000 DNA bases that can be analysed for novel genes
Agilent Technologies and Transcriptic have announced a collaboration to combine their technologies in order to provide a solution for convenient, broad scale synthetic and discovery biology research.
Transcriptic's automated discovery biology platform enables scalable life science research through a convenient and simple web interface. Biologists who use the platform can control their science and generate data remotely via the cloud.
The Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalised Medicine (SCGPM) has adopted the DNAnexus Platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud in order to bring enterprise-ready genomic analysis, data management, and collaborative research solutions to the centre.
Intersect360 Research, a market research company specialising in the high-performance computing industry, has released a market forecast detailing the expected compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) predicted for the HPC industry over the next five years
Xilinx has announced that Baidu, a Chinese language Internet search provider, is utilising Xilinx FPGAs to accelerate machine learning applications in its data centres in China.
Earlham Institute has created a dedicated HPC cluster for international data portal ‘CyVerse’ that will provide free open-source genome analysis for big data research
Psychiatric patients at the UK's Broadmoor Hospital have been assessed in the first health monitoring trial using contactless camera-based technology
IBM has joined forces with Siemens Healthineers in a five-year deal aimed at helping healthcare organisations to provide better-value care to patients
Things are hotting up in the world of weather and climate forecasting thanks to today’s highly ambitious projects
Drug discovery is a complex process that requires increasing resources and time to generate new molecules. As the processes have matured there is an increasing reliance on computational methods to accelerate the discovery process.
Patients across the UK will benefit from better healthcare, treatments and faster diagnosis as the government sets out plans to deliver genomic healthcare
One of the most obvious, and immediate challenges when bringing new software into a lab environment is the likely ‘spaghetti soup’ of existing platforms – possibly from multiple vendors – that are already installed, suggests Richard Milne
With the growth of AI and DL comes new opportunities for emerging applications finds Robert Roe
Robert Roe takes a look at the training and skills development opportunities for scientists using HPC in their research
A round-up of the latest cooling technologies for scientists using HPC to support their research
A round-up of the latest storage products and technology available for scientists using HPC as a tool for their research
