Contents

• Editorial: Time to solution
• News
• Leena Jukka: Earth System--from fragments to a whole
• Viewpoint: Making biology computational
• Matti Häyry and Tuija Takala: Biobanks facilitate research, but who controls the information?
• Comment: Biobanks depend on high-quality data
• Eero Vuorio and Veikko Launis: How to organize biobanking in Finland?
• Mikael Johansson: Tiny golden spheres
• Collaboration: PIIMA--tailoring Elmer to suit the silicon industry
• Paavo Ahonen: New focus on computer science; from computation to data management
• Olivier Gagliardini: Modeling the flow of ice in Antarctica
• Careers in research: Olivier Gagliardini, an engineer
• CSC Statistics from 2005
• Saara Värttö: DEISA calls for new challenging supercomputer applications
• Column: What did you learn at school today?
• Liisi Jylhä and Ari Sihvola: Boosting calculations to determine electromagnetic properties of composites
• Negotiating for a supercomputer

CSCnews 1/2006 (pdf)