News articles tagged with 'database' (Page 3)
New IBM system is first to process a million transactions per minute
— 16 Sep 2008 17:10 | TechnologyIBM today announced two IBM System x servers featuring new six-core processor technology from Intel. The new servers offer exceptional power-efficiency, performance and virtualisation…
Open access to large-scale drug discovery data
— 23 Jul 2008 20:49 | HealthThe Wellcome Trust has awarded GBP4.7 million (EUR5.8 million) to EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) to support the transfer of a large collection of information on…
How secure is your network? NIST model knows
— 23 Jul 2008 16:32 | TechnologyData breaches are a recurring nightmare for IT managers responsible for securing not only their company's confidential data, but possibly also sensitive information belonging to their…
How to build a better home for biological parts
— 18 Jul 2008 13:07 | BiologyResearchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech have compiled a series of guidelines that should help researchers in their efforts to design, develop and…
UCSB scientist leads worldwide study on marine fossil diversity
— 13 Jul 2008 15:14 | Geology and palaeontologyIt took a decade of painstaking study, the cooperation of hundreds of researchers, and a database of more than 200,000 fossil records, but John Alroy thinks he's disproved much of the…
A new approach to archiving human genetic information
— 12 Jul 2008 16:50 | BiologyA genome sequence is a long sequence written in a four letter code - 3 billion letters in the case of a human genome. But what is the meaning - how is the code deciphered? Traditionally…
Initiative to calibrate European biodiversity using DNA barcodes
— 1 Jul 2008 15:30 | BiologyThe idea of barcoding is familiar to many: in almost every supermarket the checkout operator shows the ticket labelled with a series of black bars to a laser scanner which responds…
Large-scale community protein annotation - WikiProteins
— 28 May 2008 10:45 | BiologyToday sees the launch of a new collaborative website initially focusing on proteins and their role in biology and medicine. The WikiProfessional technology underlying the site has been…