Contents

• Editorial: Raising awareness of computational science
• News
• Ari Turunen: Genetic research revealing the secrets of wood
• Viewpoint: Publishing computational science
• Jari Hämäläinen, Teemu Leppänen, and Taija Saikkonen: Don't kick the copying machine
• Column: In the beginning, there was information, or was it the qubit?
• Karoliina Honkala: Modeling catalysis on metal surfaces
• Careers in research: Karoliina Honkala, a nanoscientist
• J.A. Heikkinen, S.J. Janhunen, T.P. Kiviniemi, S. Leerink, and F. Ogando: Towards petaflops computations for fusion plasma turbulence
• Saara Värttö: Discussions on the future of the European research infrastructures
• Samuli Siltanen: Electrical impdedance tomography: medical imaging meets inverse quantum scattering
• Column: Remembering Kurt Gödel
• Imprints: How to develop software using Python
• Collaboration: Code optimization--taming the computational beasts
• Per Harald Jonson and M. Minna Laine: YeastBASE: curated data warehouse of public yeast gene expression data
• Antti Pursula: Active Elmer development
• Tommi Nyrönen, Tapani Kinnunen, and Pekka Lehtovuori: Seamless computing across versatile IT infrastructures--SOMA drug discovery environment
• Juha Haataja: The need for success stories in computational science

CSCnews 2/2006 (pdf)