Amazon Web Services, NIH offer free access to 1,000 Genomes Project - March 30, 2012
The complete 1,000 Genomes Project is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a publicly available data set. This was announced by AWS and the US’ National Institutes of Health (NIH) at the White House Big Data Summit. Amazon Web Services… Read More
MarkLogic World 2012 event to offer keynotes, case studies, industry trends on Big Data - March 30, 2012
Enterprise software firm MarkLogic Corporation, US, has announced that Big Data experts will join the company at MarkLogic World 2012. The event will take place at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC from May 1-3, 2012. Participants at the event can expect to meet… Read More
Thomson Reuters publishes paper on latest lexicon of US healthcare reform - March 29, 2012
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has published a new paper called ‘Vocabulary of Healthcare Reform’. The paper seeks to explain the new reform terminology along with insights to augment the definitions of these terms. In addition to comprehensive overview of the buzz words and… Read More
Ex Libris’ new bX Hot Articles to analyse scholarly usage data from researchers worldwide - March 29, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced the release of bX Hot Articles, a service that is part of the recently launched bX usage-based suite of services from Ex Libris. Updated monthly, Hot Articles identifies the 10 articles that researchers have selected the… Read More
SureChem introduces SureChemOpen, a free access option for patent chemistry search - March 28, 2012
SureChem, a patent chemistry product line of Digital Science, has introduced SureChemOpen, a new free access option for researchers needing a more effective means of searching the patent literature. The announcement was made in line with the American Chemical Society's Spring Meeting, held in San Diego,… Read More
Brazil and India set for greatest growth in e-book purchase, says Bowker research - March 28, 2012
Australia, India, the UK and the US are leading the world in e-book adoption rates, according to Bowker Market Research's Global eBook Monitor. The study tracks consumer attitudes to, and purchasing of, e-books in major world markets. Bowker Market Research is a service of Bowker, an… Read More
