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Mobile pollution monitoring helps clear the air

• Jeremy Cohen from Imperial College London discusses new mobile pollution sensors that could lead to real-time pollution monitoring.

News in Brief

• OMII-UK’s OSCAR Workshop brings chemists together, New videos show e-Research in action, Diaser solves archiving problems, NGS Innovation Forum is magic! From strength to strength: GridSAM, Twitter!

Access Grid move into further education

• Access Grid's Katy Middlebrough discusses AG's attempt to open up the further education market.

Gain contributors, improve code and achieve sustainability

• We hear about the many benefits of open development from Ross Gardler, Manager at OSS Watch.

BioCatalogue: a curated catalogue of Web Services for the life sciences

• The BioCatalogue is set to help life scientists to locate and use Web Services. Franck Tanoh provides an overview of this phenomenally useful new tool.

A student’s view on the summer school

• Kristen Hardwick, one of the top summer school students, tells us about her experience of the International Summer School for Grid Computing (ISSGC).

Manchester eResearch Centre launch

• The University of Manchester is revitalising its e-social science research programme with the launch of the Manchester eResearch Centre.

EGEE develop grid-friendly MATLAB

• Researchers from disciplines as disparate as laser physics and finance, have a new computing tool at their fingertips: MATLAB can now run on the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) infrastructure.

ONIX a free online cancer-research portal

• A free, online, cancer-research portal, called ONIX, was launched at the end of August. The National Cancer Research Institute's Emma Rigby discusses how it could potentially improve prognosis and diagnosis of cancer.

New consortium to embed e-Research technology

• We hear from Anne Trefethen, the Director of e-Research South, about how the consortium will help to embed e-Research technologies in the research community.

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