Business + Strategy

• Gilna to Captain CAMERA 
  DATA MINING - Fueled by Venter voyage data, CAMERA seeks to jumpstart metagenomics.
• 3rd Millennium Goes Out on a LIMS
  STRATEGY - Consulting company turns SBIR project into a commercial software package.
• Backwards Influence
  NOTHING VENTURED - Software tools are driving ultimate discovery productivity for pharma.
  By Michael A. Greeley
• Semantic Web at the Cusp of Reality
  INSIGHTS | OUTLOOK - Broad adoption of Semantic Web technology could occur in as little as five years.
  By Alan S. Louie
• News Blast

Science + Technology

• Why Variety Is the Spice of Life
  GENOMICS - Human Variome Project delves into genetic basis of disease.
• Afferenz on EDC, Images, and Data Integration
  CLINICAL TRIALS - Indian company explores integration of data tools and medical devices.
• HapMap Project Prepares for Phase II Release
  GENETICS - Variation data to give insight into human disease and drug response.
• Tissue Microarray Hard and Software
  FULLY EQUIPPED - A sampling of new TMA hardware and software.
  By Robert M. Frederickson
• News Blast
• New Products

IT + Informatics

• David Shaw: No Hedging on Future of Computer Simulations
  COMPUTER SCIENCE - Advances poised for biosimulation breakthrough.
• SUNY-SGI Collaboration Yields AIDS Breakthrough
  COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY - SUNY, SGI simulate HIV protease molecule at its most vulnerable moments.
• Broad Institute Releases GenePattern 2.0
  INFORMATICS - Software suite now includes proteomics modules.
• Freeing Data, Keeping Structure
  SCIENCE AND THE WEB - Mashups are much more than just mush. 
  By Eric K. Neumann
• News Blast
• New Products

In Every Issue

• The Data Deluge: Deal or No Deal?
  FIRST BASE - Rather than decry the data glut, embrace the complexity of genomic and other data sources.
  By Kevin Davies 
• Genstruct-Pfizer Alliance Bears Fruit
  THE RUSSELL TRANSCRIPT - Alliance between Pfizer and Genstruct is a milestone for systems biology.
  By John Russell