Robert Roe discovers that data integrity, process improvement, and managing data effectively are key challenges for informatics providers finding the speed to innovate, as the theme for the latest Paperless Lab Academy suggested
Jana Erjavec wonders why researchers are slow to adopt software for electronic laboratory notebooks
The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), a research institute based in the UK, has dramatically reduced the time to perform large genome assembly with the installation of a new supercomputing platform based on two SGI UV 300 systems
IBM Research has announced it is making quantum computing available to members of the public, who can access and run experiments on IBMs quantum processor through the cloud
Zoe Cournia, a computational chemist and assistant professor level investigator at the Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, has been selected as the recipient of the 1st PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
Cambridge University spin-out Optalysys has been awarded a $350k grant for a 13-month project from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Researchers at Purdue University are using cryo-electron microscopy and advanced computing to develop a detailed 3D image of the structure of the Zika virus
Statisticians, computer scientists and medical researchers for the UKs University of East Anglia are launching a project that uses 'big data to predict life expectancy
Certara, a provider of biosimulation technology, has announced that its regulatory and medical consultancy Synchrogenix has introduced an artificial intelligence enabled solution to meet the data transparency requirements of the clinical drug development market
A researcher based at University College London (UCL) has been awarded £100,000 to use complex computer modelling to map the start and spread of Parkinsons and Alzheimers disease
In January 2020 the American Diabetes Association released a new set of clinical standards that, for the first time, included the use of an FDA-approved autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) platform for detecting diabetic retinopathy in people with diabetes.
At the end of February physIQ and the US Department of Veteran’s Affairs published data from a clinical trial demonstrating the use of physIQ’s machine-learning algorithm to predict when an individual patient with previously diagnosed heart failure will likely require a readmission to hospital.
Cloud research tools provide a platform for new avenues of scientific research by providing fast access to bare-metal resources.
New processors and GPU technology continue to demand more power than the previous generations, combining this with increasingly dense architectures requires cooling solutions such as liquid or immersion cooling.
Tate Cantrell, CTO, Verne Global, comments on the cost of the AI computing revolution
European researchers are working on a new programming environment for exascale computing that aims to make using these systems more efficient and programmers more productive.
