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A new project connects life science researchers with software developers, enabling faster and more accurate computations to be done.

The Belle experiment at the KEKB electron-positron collider, based at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Tsukuba, Japan, made significant contributions to the field of particle physics before it shut down 30 June 2010. Among them was the observation of charge-parity violation in B mesons. Today, physicists are preparing for the next step: SuperKEKB and Belle II. And part of those preparations include creating the computing infrastructure the experiment will need to handle massive amounts of data.

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.

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.

The conclusions of the SIENA European Roadmap on Distributed Computing Infrastructure were presented at the SIENA’s 4th Cloudscape meeting, last week.

The Mont-Blanc project, a European effort, is designing a new energy-efficient computer architecture at the exascale range by 2020.

A great deal of information is embedded within the chemical research literature - information that could be invaluable in efforts to synthesize drugs. Now, a team of German researchers are developing software that could help to make that process more efficient and rapid by taking a page from a search engine's book.

Avatars, grids and mobile phones are helping bridge the gap between illiterate deaf people and literate hearing people in Tunisia.

Respiratory infections are the main reason why children under five end up in hospital. However, in up to 40% of the cases it’s not possible to define the exact cause of the disease and in many cases this is because the viruses are still unknown to science.

Grid computing is helping a Dutch team identify more viruses, which improves the chances of correct diagnostics and helps to determine the best treatment for patients.