Data Analysis

Despite a fall from grace in recent years, chemometrics has a key role to play in the interpretation of mega-variate datasets.

Can 900 million Android devices save the world while their owners sleep?

The discussion thread on an opinion article on chemometrics has been incredibly insightful – and spurred our commissioning strategy.

Academia is fundamentally broken. You’re wasting your time producing data that will never be published because the scientist down the hall didn’t publish it either. Why aren’t we more concerned?

Founded by frustrated student Mark Hahnel in 2011, figshare has blossomed to offer a cloud-based publishing solution to otherwise wasted research outputs

WADA is on a mission to rid sports of substances that impart an unfair advantage.

Full-scan mass spectrometry is about to transform the way that we do analyses ... Here, I describe the possibilities for non-targeted analysis that are opened up by recent improvements in instrumentation, compare the new approach to today’s best (targeted) practice, and look for solutions to the bottlenecks that are hindering widespread adoption of non-targeted analysis.

An illustration of how working with customers throughout development increases the effectiveness of ... new products.

Why lab SOPs are cumbersome and often ignored, and what can be done to improve them ...

Can deoxyribonucleic acid solve our spiralling digital data archive conundrum? Hard disc drive space is now ... measured in terabytes not megabytes. And yet still we run out of space – or money.