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February 2012

Dr Marina Jirotka joins Visiting Committee for the The Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore 6th February '12

Dr Marina Jirotka has been invited by The Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore to be a member of a Visiting Committee of international experts to carry out an assessment of the Master of Technology (MTech) degree programme with specialisations in Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering in February 2012.

Virtual Research Environment for Cancer Imaging SharePoint Sandbox Solution Release 3rd February '12

The Virtual Research Environment for Cancer Imaging (VRE-CI) based at the Oxford e-Research Centre has now released its SharePoint Sandbox Solution as open source in Codeplex under the New BSD License.

Memorandum of Understanding between CIBNOR and Oxford e-Research Centre 1st February '12

We are delighted to announce that the Oxford e-Research Centre and the Northwestern Centre of Biological Research (CIBNOR ) in Mexico have now in place a Memorandum of Understanding....

January 2012

ISA Framework project featured in Nature Genetics 30th January '12

Details on the ISA Framework project are included as part of Nature Genetics Editorial "It's Not About The Data"

New Standards Allow Disparate Data Sets to Integrate 29th January '12

Led by researchers at University of Oxford (UK) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) at Harvard University, (USA), more than 50 collaborators at over 30 scientific organizations around the globe have agreed on a common standard that will make possible the consistent description of enormous and radically different databases compiled in fields ranging from genetics to stem cell science, to environmental studies.