What do people do in eScience
Martin Dove
Thursday, 01 March 2007 13:06 UTC
Let’s start this off by collating what interests people have in eScience …
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So being the first member of this group, let me start off!
My interests are in running grids for research collaborations, what I called “Community Grids”. I am very interested in such grids having a close interplay between compute, data and collaborative components. A lot of this interest derives from the work of the eMinerals project which I lead.
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I’m primarily interested in diamond surface chemistry and now some Agriculture and Plant biology fields.
I’m curious how quickly a distributed computing network can grow. How can a project be marketed? I see applications for distributed computing in my fields of interest, but I don’t know anything about computer programming.
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I’m director of web publishing at Nature, so my main interest is in how to make the most of the web as a scientific communication medium – and the ways in which that changes the research process itself. (Of course, Nature Network is one of many ways that we’re working on this.)
A few months ago I gave a talk at the Berkman Center summarising my views (see David Weinberger’s notes). A much more eloquent and better informed proponent than me is Tony Hey. My notes from his recent talk at Nature are here.
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hi all!
I’m primarily interested in nanotechnology and chemistry. I work with are nanoparticulate and electrodeposited, nanostructured thin films. I use X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and microscopy techniques such as High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy.
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I am a strategist at a bioinformatics company, an internet geek and active blogger. I am curious about how we can leverage new technologies to improve scientific communication, identify problems early and improve science in general
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Hi, this is what i do in eScience
I am a postdoctoral researcher studing the structure of molecular machines, myosins and actins using Transmission electron microscope.
I do image processing of the collected single-particles using SPIDER software.
I am also doing some preliminary 3D-structure analysis using Cryo-EM. -
Hi,
I’m the new guy on this list, which I have followed but not posted to previously.
I’m the European editor of a weekly newsletter devoted to distributed computing, that is jointly published by organizations such as CERN and Fermilab, among others. As you’d expect, we have a strong physics emphasis — but we’ve also done stories on things such as using grid computing to fight real-life, modern pirates off the coast of Somalia. Or using supercomputers to predict crime rates. (The latest issue is on astronomy and computing.)
Anyhow, I hope I’m not intruding, but I thought folks here on this e-Science forum might be interested in what’s happening on another part of Nature Networks. (We just got going last week.)
Almost forgot — our forum name is iSGTW, which stands for International Science Grid This Week
Cheers,
Dan
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