The Institute's Open Call provides the opportunity for UK researchers to gain software development expertise and effort - for free.
The latest round of the Call has just opened, and we invite research projects from any discipline who would like help with the development of their software to make a submission, and are particularly keen to attract applications from BBSRC and ESRC funding areas. The deadline for submissions is April 29th 2016.
For more information on the Open Call and to submit an application, please visit the Open Call page. You can also find out more about…
By Paul Graham, EPCC and Software Sustainability Institute.
We've been working with Professor Paul Burton and Dr Becca Wilson of the School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol and their software DataSHIELD (Data Aggregation Through Anonymous Summary-statistics from Harmonized Individual levEL Databases). This is a suite of software that enables remote and non-disclosive analysis of sensitive research data. Data providers can use it to make their datasets available for use in analysis without disclosing individual level data itself, and researchers can thus gain…
The Institute's Open Call provides the opportunity for UK researchers to gain software development expertise and effort - for free. The submissions deadline for this round of the Open Call is next week, Wednesday, 30 September 2015.
We invite research projects from any discipline who would like help with the development of their software to make a submission. For more information on the Open Call and to submit an application, please visit the Open Call page. You can also find out more about our current and past projects.
The Institute's Open Call provides the opportunity for UK researchers to gain software development expertise and effort - for free.
The latest round of the Call has just opened, and we invite research projects from any discipline who would like help with the development of their software to make a submission. The deadline for submissions is September 30th 2015.
For more information on the Open Call and to submit an application, please visit the Open Call page. You can also find out more about our current and past projects.
By Paul Graham, EPCC and Software Sustainability Institute.
We have a new project working with Dr Kasper Peeters of Durham University and his software, Cadabra: a computer algebra system which can perform symbolic algebraic computations in classical and quantum field theory. In contrast to other software packages, Cadabra is written with this specific application area in mind, and addresses points where the more general purpose systems are unsuitable or require excessive amounts of additional programming to solve the problems at hand.
Cadabra has extensive functionality for…
The Institute's Open Call provides UK researchers with software development effort and expertise - for free. Researchers can bid for our Research Software Engineers to work on their project for, typically, between one to five months.
The next round of the Open Call will open on 1 July 2015, with a submission deadline of 30 September 2015.
For more information on the Open Call and to submit an application, please visit the Open Call page. You can also find out more about our current and past projects.
By Devasena Inupakutika, Software Consultant.
With the advent of data-driven research in the life sciences, researchers have relied on data visualisations to generate hypotheses. Many bioinformatics services providers, such as EMBL-EBI or the NCBI, provide a browser-based environment to do this, as well as new ways to visualise biological data. It is important that the software is both high quality and user friendly, which helps researchers compare and contrast, as well as develop, well grounded conclusions. The Software Sustainability Institute worked with BioJS to review their…
By Mike Jackson, Software Architect.
Linked data is a way of representing and joining information from a variety of sources to allow it to be accessed, browsed, searched and used as easily as one would browse the web. One of the principles of linked data is that URIs are used to name things whether these be people, places, books, software, magazines, departments, machines and so on.
As anyone can develop their own linked data sets, and propose their own URIs, many URIs may be created for the same thing. sameAs.org is a service offered by Seme4 Limited that allows…