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Scientists Task Apple’s Siri with Biomedical Research

Researchers from BT (formerly British Telecom) and the BioTeam consultancy are using the Apple iPhone to analyze biosciences research data in the cloud. The prototype system seeks to make it simpler for scientists to run experiments and is part of a growing trend toward using the cloud for life-sciences research. A researcher can design an experiment, then ask Siri, the iPhone personal assistant technology, to run it on the BT Compute cloud platform. The researchers used a third-party Siri proxy server that takes custom voice commands and routes them to the appropriate application, in this case Accelrys Pipeline Pilot scientific analysis software running on the BT Compute cloud. The proof-of-concept is a small experiment in which Siri was used to run some data. They say this is an incremental step toward a fully-automated life sciences cloud. (Wired)(BioTeam)

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