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February 01 2007
CFI leads national investment in high performance computing network With some orchestrating by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, universities, provincial and federal funding agencies, the private sector will create the first pan-Canadian network of High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities.
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June 12 2006
U.K. University Installs 3 Supercomputers The University of Bristol (Bristol, U.K.) has recently signed an agreement to have three supercomputers installed that will provide computing power for research into space and time structure, climate modelling and novel drug design.
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April 18 2006
IBM Scientists Experiment with Atom-scale Magnetism Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif. have developed a new method of controlling magnetism at the atomic level.
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February 27 2006
Tree of Life Project Branching Out The web-based Tree of Life genealogy project has taken root, aiming to provide a convenient resource for scientists studying the very nature of life on earth.
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February 15 2006
New Systems and Computational Biology Centre Opened in Arizona Arizona State University (ASU) (Tempe, AZ) has joined forces with the non-profit Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) (Phoenix, AZ) to create the Center for Systems and Computational Biology, one of only a few centres of its kind in the U.S.
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January 29 2006
New Program to Aid Crop Development Researchers A joint venture between two of the world's leading agricultural research centres has produced a valuable new resource for investigators attempting to develop new crop varieties.
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September 20 2005
Computer Modelling Uncovers Protein Mystery A computer program that explains how proteins play multiple roles in a variety of cellular processes has been developed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA).
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July 29 2005
New Statistical Method Leads to Better Genome Mining The complex process of identifying the genetic origins of specific traits has been streamlined thanks to a new technique developed by University of Washington (Seattle, WA) researchers.
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May 03 2005
New Program to Focus on Computer-based Cell Research The University of Calgary (UC) (Calgary, AB) is playing host to a new $8.9-million, computer-based research institute that could ultimately lead to the development of improved cancer treatments.
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April 12 2005
Information and Communication Technology: Speeding Discovery and Innovation By Bernard Courtois, president of the Information Technology Association of Canada In its ongoing pursuit of scientific discovery, Canada's pharmaceutical/ biotechnology industry has emerged as one of our countrys most R&D-intensive sectors.
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March 07 2005
New Version of Genomics Software Introduced GenMAPP (Gene Map Annotator and Pathway Profiler) software, widely used by biomedical scientists in genomics research, has undergone its first major revision since its introduction in 2002.
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February 28 2005
Algorithms May Help Develop HIV Vaccine The same algorithms used to detect patterns in those never-ending spam e-mails may prove vital to the development of a vaccine for the AIDS virus.
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February 21 2005
Computer Software Used to Create Flu Drug British researchers will soon be using the latest computer software to fight influenza.
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November 07 2004
Electronic Patient Record System Implemented in Saudi Arabia One of the Middle East's largest clinical information management system implementations was recently undertaken.
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November 01 2004
Information Resource Now Available at McGill McGill University (Montreal, QC) and its network of eight teaching hospitals have recently subscribed to UpToDate®, a clinical information resource that provides physicians with information in online, CD-ROM or pocket PC formats.
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October 06 2004
The PILE system By Yugo Acimovic EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION OF MODERN COMPUTING AND BIOINFORMATICS
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October 06 2004
I, Virtual Patient By Mark D. Uehling, Bio-IT World DIABETES BIOMARKER TESTED ON DIGITAL PATIENTS
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October 04 2004
Computer System Puts the "Bee" in Behaviour The National Science Foundation (NSF) (Arlington, VA) has recently awarded the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL) a $5-million grant to fund a software project aimed at understanding the mechanisms of social behaviour.
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September 20 2004
Simulations Explore Protein-folding Interactions By Salvatore Salamone, Bio-IT World online Scientists at IBM Corp. (Armonk, NY) and Columbia University (New York, NY) have conducted new simulations to study the basic science that drives the folding of proteins in water.
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August 30 2004
Light Research Speeds Up Internet Internet that is faster than the speed of light?
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August 16 2004
Regional Health Records E-solution Active Operating 24 hours per day and seven days per week, a new health records e-solution is up and running - the first of its kind in a major region in Canada.
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June 14 2004
Seeing from Smell Everyone has experienced it: the whiff of a familiar smell conjuring up vivid images from the past. A U.K. study now offers an explanation for this phenomenon.
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March 15 2004
Contest Promotes Development of Parallel Algorithms By Salvatore Salamone, Bio-IT World (online) An upcoming competition called Grid Wars seeks to encourage interest in parallel programming and cluster computing.
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January 26 2004
What You See is What You Get By Michael A. Greeley, Bio IT World The transition from analogue to digital will allow systems biology to reach its full potential.
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March 01 2003
Traversing Dimensional Boundaries - Behind the Screen to On the Shelf BY DEBORAH KOMLOS Virtual-cell projects offer promise of advancing drug development
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January 02 2003
Bitter Pill? BY PATRICIA NICHOLSON Building Canadian drug development capacity
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January 02 2003
Bioinformatics Set to Jump on the Grid Computing Bandwagon BY DEBORAH KOMLOS Canadian Bioinformatics Resource in Halifax named a Sun Center of Excellence in Distributed Bioinformatics
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