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New way to make rare drugs

ANU chemists have used Raijin to develop a revolutionary new way to manufacture a rare anti-inflammatory drug with potential to treat cancer and malaria. The breakthrough could lead to new and cheaper ways to produce rare drugs in large quantities. "We took small molecules and clipped them together...
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Keeping quiet

Not much affects the nerves like the high-pitched squealing of car brakes. Fortunately, researchers are using NCI's computational facilities to help design quieter brakes – and save the car industry time and money. Car brakes squeal when some of the kinetic energy is transferred into sound instead...
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Towards early detection of heart disease

Professor Kerry Hourigan's team at Monash University are using the NCI supercomputer to develop tools for early detection of heart attacks and strokes. "Cardiovascular disease is a major health problem and one of the biggest killers in Australia and worldwide," Professor Hourigan says. In the past...
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Taming the flame

NCI is helping researchers from UNSW to delve into the mysteries of fuel combustion to reduce emissions and improve fuel efficiency. "Almost 90% of Australia's total energy production relies on combustion," says Associate Professor Evatt Hawkes. "It is very important that we move towards renewables...
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Behind the scenes of big data storage  

NCI will soon host more than 10 petabytes of research data. That's 10,000,000,000 megabytes of files. Hosting these datasets is not as simple as just copy and pasting the files onto a hard drive – they need to be thoroughly catalogued so they can be easily searched, downloaded and analysed. There's...
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Persistent Identifier Practice for Big Data Management at NCI

The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) manages over 10 PB research data, which is co-located with the high performance computer (Raijin) and an HPC class 3000 core OpenStack cloud system (Tenjin). In support of this integrated High Performance Computing/High Performance Data (HPC/HPD)...
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Providing Research Graph data in JSON-LD using Schema.org

In this position paper, we describe a pilot project that provides Research Graph records to external web services using JSON-LD. The Research Graph database contains a large-scale graph that links research datasets (i.e., data used to support research) to funding records (i.e. grants), publications...
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Graph Connections Made By RD-Switchboard Using NCI's Metadata

This paper demonstrates the connectivity graphs made by Research Data Switchboard (RD-Switchboard) using NCI's metadata database. Making research data connected, discoverable and reusable are some of the key enablers of the new data revolution in research. We show how the Research Data Switchboard...
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Supporting Data Reproducibility at NCI Using the Provenance Capture System

Scientific research is published in journals so that the research community is able to share knowledge and results, verify hypotheses, contribute evidence-based opinions and promote discussion. However, it is hard to fully understand, let alone reproduce, the results if the complex data manipulation...
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24 September 2019 11am - 12pm

Data Webinar - Introduction to NCI's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

This is the second of NCI's Data Webinars, each covering a particular aspect of NCI's data services, environments, management and more. Who should attend: NCI data users, general researchers who are interested in the following domains such as climate and weather, earth observation, geosciences...

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