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Ensuring a bright future for research software

• A £4.2 million grant will set up the Software Sustainability Institute, which will co-ordinate how the UK research community will sustain important research software and make it available for future use.

News in Brief

• Downloads highlight Taverna’s popularity, Learn about software on YouTube, Rapid is textbook software.

What we need to know about climate change

• Are climate change predictions doomed to the failure? This and other concerns led Andrew Kerr to run the eSI's theme on Communicating the e-Science of Climate Change. Iain Coleman reports on the latest developments.

Research needs to focus on basic computing skills

• Bruce Beckles, from the University of Cambridge, discusses his thoughts on how e-Research could be improved by investing in more teaching of computing skills.

European interoperability goes global

• OMII-UK and the NGS have taken a step towards a future of globally integrated computing.

BioPortal benefits from excellent support

• ICHEC recently praised OMII-UK for its ‘excellent and timely support’ in providing them with the bespoke functionality they needed for their project’s job-submission service.