HADDOCK helps scientists to look at the evolution of brain tumours
The study was published in Nature Communications (full story)
Services: High-Throughput Compute
Computing resources provided by 7 EGI federated data centres via the HADDOCK portals
Creating a digital heart
Scientists have developed a framework to generate virtual ultrasound and magnetic resonance images using the VIP platform (full story)
Services: High-Throughput Compute, Online Storage
Computing services provided through the biomed virtual organisation
Classifying plants with deep learning
Scientists show how artificial intelligence can support plant identification and classification.(full story)
Services: Cloud Compute
Computing resources provided by the IFCA CSIC site, member of the EGI Federated Cloud
Satellite observations help to monitor air quality in China
Keeping track of pollution emissions in China sounds like a dire job, but a research team in Greece comes to the rescue with the help of satellite observations. (full story)
Services: High-Throughput Compute
Computing resources provided through HellasGrid
Studying the atmospheric composition in Bulgaria
A recent study gives an extensive overview of the atmospheric structure and air quality index in Bulgaria, showing that road traffic is one of the main factors of pollution. (full story)
Services: High-Throughput Compute
Computing resources provided through the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Clean methane from recycled carbon dioxide
A team from Italy is pioneering a way to produce high-quality, carbon-neutral methane gas using industrial waste carbon dioxide. (full story)
Services: High-Throughput Compute
Computing resources provided through the compchem virtual organisation
Self-fertilization can improve resilience to extinction
It may sound like a contradiction, but scientists have discovered that in some situations a shift to self-fertilizing reproduction does not spell doom for the long-term survival of plant species. (full story)
Services: High-Throughput Compute
Computing resources provided through the biomed virtual organisation
Old coal heaps can be valuable ecosystems
Industrial landscapes often leave a trail of ecological catastrophe on their wake, but a new study shows that old spoil heaps from coal mining can be paradise for natterjack toads. (full story)
Services: High-Throughput Compute
Computing resources provided through the biomed virtual organisation
Small settlements coalesce into larger cities
How the OpenMOLE platform and High-Throughput Compute helped to validate a long-held theory in geography
How to reduce flood risks in the Netherlands
High-Throughput Compute power can help to improve dyke stability and safety
Reducing the incidence of epilepsy
How High-Throughput Compute helps scientists to predict and counteract the development of epilepsy
What happens when molecules collide?
How High-Throughput Compute helps researchers to simulate chemical reactions.
How to predict social media trends?
Cloud Compute helps to test new ways to detect trends on social networks
CLIC and ILC: new windows into the subatomic world
High-Throughput Compute solutions for linear colliders
The genetics and diversity of mussels
PL-Grid computing resources help biologists to understand how mussel species survived the last glaciation
Does ice water change the optical properties of cirrus clouds?
High-Throughput Compute helps scientists to better understand the impact of cirrus clouds on climate
Only two pigments form the colours of bird eggs
How Metacentrum helped scientists to explain the diversity behind the colours of bird eggs
Belle II: Finding the balance between matter and antimatter
High-Throughput Compute and Storage solutions for Belle II’s computational challenges
A new method to image a molecule’s electrostatic forces
Czech physicists find a new way to picture electrostatic forces and learn more about chemical properties
When did whales and dolphins become adapted to life underwater?
How cetaceans evolved key genetic adaptations for their aquatic lifestyle after they separated from their close relatives, the hippos
Modelling bacterial iron piracy from plant proteins
The HADDOCK portal helps to show that bacteria have a special drawbridge to steal iron from plant proteins
H.E.S.S.: a window to the high energy universe
High-Throughput Compute services to unlock the puzzle of cosmic rays
CTA: the world’s leading gamma-ray observatory
High-Throughput Compute and Storage solutions for CTA’s computational challenges
What happened during the Amatrice earthquake?
How the VERCE platform helped seismologists to make sense of a natural catastrophe
New biomarkers for multiple sclerosis
How the VIP platform developed in France is helping scientists based in Sweden to research new ways to monitor the progress of multiple sclerosis.
The genetics of Salmonella infections
How Cloud Compute helped scientists to understand what happens during when a human cell meets Salmonella
New viruses implicated in fatal snake disease
How the Chipster platform helped virologists to make sense of millions of virus genomes
Cracking Goldbach’s Conjecture
How High-Throughput Compute helped mathematicians to tackle an old problem
Are comets born in asteroid collisions?
How High-Throughput Compute helped astronomers to find out where main-belt comets come from.
Designing better antibiotics
How High-Throughput Compute helped to develop antibiotics with less side effects but equally powerful against fungi
Modelling earthquakes in Thessaloniki
Predicting earthquakes is impossible, but High-Throughput Compute helps to anticipate their effects
Improving digital security with natural selection
How scientists from the Czech Republic trialed new cryptanalysis methods with inspiration from the theory of evolution and the help of High-Throughput Compute
Does combat stress have a long-term effect on attention and memory?
How High-Throughput Compute is helping to understand the effects of combat on soldiers’ brains
Is Andromeda II galaxy the result of a merger?
How scientists from Poland used High-Throughput Compute to find an explanation for the origins of a galaxy that fits astronomical observations
3D liver maps using magnetic resonance imaging
How High-Throughput Compute helps to develop alternative, non-invasive techniques to diagnose and monitor liver fibrosis
Making sense of seismic noise
How High-Throughput Compute helps scientists to correlate data from millions of calculations to unveil the rock structure of an oil field under the North Sea
On the double: how high metabolic rates accelerate evolution
How High-Throughput Compute helps to show how new species of cold-blooded animals appear faster in warmer climates
Publications
A collection of the best research use cases published in the EGI website.
A collection of the best research case studies published in the EGI website between 2010-2014.