Day in the software life

By Swithun Crowe, Research Computing,

By Louise Brown, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham and EPSRC Research Software Engineer Fellow

By Jakob Nikolas Kather, MD, MSc, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany.

By Karen Anderson, University of Exeter, and David Griffiths, FoAM Kernow

Gaia artist's impression. Credits: ESA/ATG MEDIALAB; Background Image: ESO/S. Brunier, June 2013Gaia artist's impression. Credits: ESA/ATG MEDIALAB;
Figure 1: Inspect your raw mass spectra and run tools from within the OpenMS visualisation tool TOPPViewFigure 1: Inspect your raw mass spectra and run tools

By Christopher Hunt, Lead Developer at i-DAT, Plymouth University.

This article is part of our series: a day in the software life, in which we ask researchers from all disciplines to discuss the tools that make their research possible.

Organisations use a wide range of methods to measure how audiences engage with a cultural experience. These include audience surveys, focus groups, interviews, blog posts and a range of more experimental and creative methods. However, most of these methods are expensive, use a great deal of resources and lack a standardised…

By Alina Călin, Chief Research Officer at MIRA Rehab, and Dr. Emma Stanmore, Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Manchester.

This article is part of our series: a day in the software life, in which we ask researchers from all disciplines to discuss the tools that make their research possible.

Gamification is the next big innovation in the field of rehabilitation, and makes use of remote sensors and aspects of video game design to engage patients in their rehab and make it more accessible, which in turn encourages participation and so keeps…

One of the biggest problems facing researchers is the best way to share their research to as broad an audience as possible. In fact, it’s this important part of research impact, or how academic research makes a contribution to wider society, that is used as one of the yardsticks to judge the success of a research project.

The Software Sustainability Institute has been addressing this problem through its blog, which regularly features articles by researchers from across the disciplines, all of whom have used software to enhance and develop their work. The question, however…

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