National Grid Seminar Series
Jointly organized with HP Singapore

Biotechnology & Life Sciences - Convergence of
ICT & Biotech

Lionel Binns
Manager, Life Sciences Program Office
High performance Technical Computing Division
(Hewlett-Packard Company)

6 September 2004 (Monday)
1600 hours @ Auditorium
Institute for Infocomm Research
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613

Abstract

The presentation will look at the increasing use of IT in biological and biomedical research and the impact that IT has had in this field since the mid 1990s. It will also take a view of the IT architectures which have proved successful in Bio research over the past few years particularly in the fields of genomics and proteomics.

Current issues will be examined, especially the rapidly accumulating volumes of data, and possible actions which could help to ameliorate these issues suggested.

Finally the presentation will look to the future, where supercomputing, advanced imaging technologies and GRID solutions may all have a large part to play.

Biodata

Lionel Binns is the manager of the Life Sciences Program Office in the Hewlett Packard Company corporate High Performance Technical Computing Division.

A biologist by background, Lionel first became involved in scientific IT when he was leading a team writing scientific software for a major pharmaceutical company in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Subsequently he became the IT manager for a UK subsidiary of a global German chemicals company and for the next few years followed this path until joining Honeywell Information Systems, in the late 1970s.

From then until joining Digital Equipment Corporation in 1987, as a Pharmaceutical Industry Consultant, Lionel held a number of consultancy, sales, marketing and management jobs in Honeywell and other computer companies.

Since joining Digital, Lionel has held a number of consultancy, marketing and management positions, notably as the European Pharmaceutical Practice Manager, Client Director for a major pharmaceuticals outsourcing project, European Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries Director, European Biosciences Manager and latterly, following Digital’s merger with Compaq, as Compaq’s world-wide Life and Materials Sciences Group manager before taking on his current role.

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This seminar series is organized by the National Grid Office located at 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613.

Admission is Free. All are Welcome.
Please register a place by 1000 hours on 3 September 2004 with Ms Vasugi (email: vasu@ngp.org.sg).