NeSC Research
The NeSC Research group is part of the National e-Science Centre and works in conjunction with the e-Science Institute of the University of Edinburgh.
Our mission is to harness the power of distributed data and computing in collaborative environments through ubiquitous computing. Our goal is to support the research life cycle in a multi-disciplinary and multi-organisational context. To achieve this we pursue research in e-Science and Informatics and apply our ideas in several scientific and industrial domains.
On a daily basis, we collaborate with physicists, astronomers, developmental biologists, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, computer scientists and neuroscientists. The aim is to progress their research by the application of our expertise, which includes:
- Distributed data access, processing and management
- Advanced data analysis and data mining
- Constrained optimisation and constraint satisfaction
- Portal interfaces for access to data and computation
- Distributed systems design
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NeSC Research Activities in edikt2
Automating microarray management and analysis
In collaboration with the Molecular Medicine Centre of the University of Edinburgh we are developing an application that automates the workflows in microarray data management, and in the large-scale analysis of these data afterwards.
Advanced data mining and analyses of the Edinburgh Mouse Atlas
In collaboration with the Edinburgh Mouse Atlas of the Human Genetics Unit of the Medical Research Council we are developing novel algorithms that allow advanced querying and analysis of spatial gene expression patterns.
Understanding the function of non-coding RNA genes
In collaboration with the Computational Genomics Laboratory of the Human Genetics Unit of the Medical Research Council we are developing advanced data mining algorithms on the Grid that will reveal novel functional networks in the human genome and shed light on a central mystery in modern genomics: the function of non-coding RNA genes.
Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence
In a collaboration with The University of Edinburgh (Lead), The University of Aberdeen, The University of St Andrews, The University of Dundee, The University of Stirling and The University of Glasgow we aim to improve the infrastructure for Neuroimaging research in Scotland. More information at http://www.sbirc.ed.ac.uk/sinapse/sinapse.asp
Rapid Development Tool for Job Submission Portlets
Funded through the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute of the United Kingdom, this project aims to increase the efficiency with which Grid-engineers deploy custom job-submission portals. During development of the prototype the process will be evaluated through user evaluations. The initial set of users will be the Psychiatric Department of the University of Edinburgh, the NanoCMOS consortium (http://www.nanocmos.ac.uk/), the Institute of Evolutionary Biology of the University of Edinburgh, and the Roslin Institute.
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