8 October 2014

Building bridges for research data sharing

Last month, iSGTW attended the EUDAT Third Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. EUDAT is facilitating efficient research by contributing towards a collaborative data infrastructure in Europe. This will enable researchers to share data easily both within and between communities. It will also facilitate preservation of research data.

"The longer we wait, the more complex it becomes to solve the challenges around building the collaborative data infrastructure," says Kimmo Koski, managing director of Finland’s IT Center for Science (CSC), which is the organization coordinating the EUDAT project. "The time has come to do this now: Today’s global economic situation highlights the need for broad collaboration to solve these challenges."

Andrew Purcell

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Big data informs conservation research and protects endangered species

With the aid of supercomputers and biotelemetry, researchers are creating detailed 3D models of land use and movement by endangered wildlife.

Read about the California condor, giant panda, and dugong, and how big data and computational resources are helping to dramatically improving tracking the animals' habitats and movements.

Jan Zverina

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Celebrating CERN with the sounds of science

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Spotlight

Key brain cell linker region a potential target for neuromodulatory drugs

Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and schizophrenia are all associated with malfunctions of a key brain cell receptor — NMDA. Read about a new, critically dependent linker region associated with NMDA and its potential to modulate disease.

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