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9 November 2011

Towards a pan-European collaborative data infrastructure

Sustainable data management and preservation is one of the major problems facing scientists today. Now, the newly-launched EUDAT project has its sights on creating a pan-European solution to the challenge of data proliferation in Europe's scientific and research communities.

Damien Lecarpentier
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Insights from spinning samples

The UltraScan web portal and supercomputers help researchers find deeper insight into the purity, structure, and behavior of proteins, DNA, and RNA.

Aaron Dubrow
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Accelerating materials research in the information age

Finding better materials for clean energy technologies takes far too long - 18 years from concept to commercialization. But computing could change that.

Linda Vu
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iSGTW goes to SC11
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Data science becomes a sport

'Crowd sourcing' website Kaggle asks scientists and statisticians to mine data to help solve outstanding puzzles for NASA, healthcare providers, and other large companies - and those who provide the right answers can earn up to three million dollars for their time.

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