NEWS
VIB deploys ELN to replace paper notebooks
VIB, a Belgium based non-profit life sciences research institute, has selected CambridgeSoft’s E-Notebook for deployment to more than 400 VIB researchers. This decision follows a successful pilot study carried out in 2009. E-Notebook, an application that facilitates research collaboration and knowledge management, will be rolled out during 2010 to VIB scientists active in many biotechnology research
Initiatives from leading software vendors, including The MathWorks and NAG, are benefiting students worldwide. The MathWorks has
announced that more than one million students now have access to Matlab and Simulink, the same tools used by engineers across numerous industries, from automotive to financial services. Universities worldwide are enabling students and faculty to use Matlab and Simulink in labs, classrooms and on laptops, improving the pace of research and preparing aspiring engineers for future careers. Imperial
domains (such as genomics, plant biology, neurobiology, microbiology) at four different universities in Flanders. By introducing the ELN, VIB aims to replace the use of paper laboratory notebooks while simultaneously provide each research group with the flexibility to adapt E-Notebook to their specific scientific needs. ‘E-Notebook enables us to capture and store our research data in one common system
College London, Keio University (Japan), Swinburne University of Technology (Australia), and University of Arkansas are among more than 60 institutions that implemented campus-wide licenses in 2009. Numerical Algorithms Group
(NAG) is marking its 40th anniversary by expanding its NAG Student Awards programme, with new awards intended to cultivate the next generation of numerical software talent worldwide. The new NAG 40th Anniversary
Awards are intended to help nurture the next generation of leaders in science and
across the VIB community, facilitating higher data standardisation and more data exchange among our scientists,’ said Dr Jo Bury, managing director of VIB. ‘Moreover, VIB scientists are able to search, compare and retrieve their digital data more easily. E-Notebook also increases efficiency as it reduces reporting time and avoids repetition of previously performed experiments.’
Students benefit from industry support
computing. In the spirit of NAG’s four decades of collaboration with leaders in computing, academia and industry, NAG will be inviting departments, from institutions across the world, to become involved with the student prizes. Awards will be offered for the best performances in a Masters of Science programme, best projects and/or best numerical solutions. Other NAG funded prizes include The Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software; the NAG Prize in Applied Numerical Computing and the NAG Prize in Mathematical Finance.
Volvo enhances crash simulation capability
Volvo 3P Cab Engineering is using Altair Engineering’s Radioss to better predict the behaviour of ductile cast-iron parts in crash simulations. Volvo 3P is a business unit of the AB Volvo group for product planning, purchasing, global vehicle development, global engineering and product range management, delivering solutions for Volvo Group’s global truck operations. One of Volvo 3P’s basic challenges is the evaluation
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of vehicle safety under various crash conditions. Intensive phases of simulations are conducted to support and enhance vehicle safety. To create a numerical simulation model that covers all the complex conditions involved in crash situations, Volvo 3P uses the Altair software Radioss. In the need to study several aspects such as elasto-plastic behavior, hardening, strain rate dependency, triaxial behavior and failure, Volvo 3P relies
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on the modelling capabilities of Radioss. Several tests for material property identification were carried out to obtain data about the material’s behaviour up to the rupture in case of torsion, tension and compression (hardening, strain rate effect, stress state influence). The data was used to validate the numeric model in Radioss and enabled the Volvo 3P engineers to set up the right material laws for simulation.
IN BRIEF
l DNAStar has become part of the BioIT Alliance. The BioIT Alliance is a group of organisations working together to realise the potential of personalised medicine.
l LabVantage’s Customer
Training and Education Conference (CTEC) will be held from 18-22 April 2010, at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA.
l The Winvale Group is the
latest organisation to join
Thermo Fisher Scientific’s
Informatics Global Partner Alliance, making the latter’s products and services available to US federal government.
l Japanese research foundation
RIKEN has chosen Genedata
Expressionist to support biomarker development for cancer research. The government foundation is using proteome analysis and mass spectrometry (MS) to identify biomarkers to aid in the development of serum- based diagnostic methods.
l LMS has entered into an agreement with DLR (the German national research centre for aeronautics and space, transportation and energy) and ONERA (the French national aerospace research centre) to deliver their next-generation ground vibration testing (GVT) systems.
l The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and ESTools
consortium, a European group of human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cell researchers, have purchased a site-wide license for Integromics’ RT-qPCR (real time quantitative polymerase chain reaction) data analysis solution, RealTime StatMiner.
l ChemAxon, a Hungarian provider of cheminformatics software for the life sciences industry, has entered into agreement with Pfizer to provide its Markush searching and structure enumeration product for deployment within Pfizer’s R&D facilities.
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