While it may not seem like the most enthralling piece of reading, the recently released proposed budget of the United States government for the fiscal year 2005 is an important document. As presented here, visitors may download the entire budget (but it should be noted that it is 63 MB), or elect to view specific sections dealing with various agencies, such as the Department of Agriculture, the...

New from the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) Genome Center, ExPASy Proteomics Tools is a comprehensive collection of protein-related databases and services for researchers. Listed and briefly described at the site are a wide variety of research tools allowing users to: identify a protein by its amino acid composition; translate a nucleotide sequence to a protein sequence; conduct similarity,...

This is the home page of an IBM research and development project that is designing a supercomputer, called Blue Gene/L, capable of 200 trillion floating point operations per second. According to the Web site, this specification "is larger than the total computing power of the top 500 supercomputers in the world today." Working in collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, IBM...