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Published online 6 November 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031103-11

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Biology gets digital in Maryland

Meeting tackles how computers should integrate research data.

Biologists and techies are meeting in Maryland to work out how to create software that might turn lab data into something useful, like diagnoses.

The scientists spending two days at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda this week want to integrate the reams of information spewed out from sequencing machines and computer models.

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