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28 March 2012

Solving Alzheimer’s and related disorders globally

What happens to all the brain scans when a neuroscience study is over? Are the images stored? Can another researcher run the same algorithm from the study, but on a different set of brain images? And if a researcher in India accessed brain scans taken in the UK, for example, would there be enough supporting clinical and image data to make it useful? In February, a high-level workshop was held in Geneva, Switzerland, to address these issues.

Your iSGTW correspondants interviewed several participants on video, and you can view these in the article.

Jacqui Hayes
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Grid portal goes (anti) viral

Viruses are one of the most common causes of human diseases, resulting in millions of new infections and fatalities every year. Now, a newly launched web portal has joined the fight.

Vivian Tiän-Tiän Chang
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Does computation threaten the scientific method?

Bug-free code is an impossibility. So, how can researchers know when the bugs in their code are minor, with no real impact, or show-stoppers that completely change the entire result?

Leslie Hatton
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iSGTW & GridCast at EGI Community Forum 2012
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Testbeds for experimental computer science

A recent report explores the world of experimental computer science and the large-scale testbeds that are essential to allow this relatively new form of research.

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