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

The University of Aberdeen has become the first Scottish university to partner with IBM to offer students and staff access to its cognitive computing technology