Accelerating time to insight with advanced research tools and services
New Tools Available for Download
About Project Trident
This workflow workbench enables oceanographers to harness a wealth of data soon to be harvested from the murky depths. Read more...
About Dryad and DryadLINQ
These tools facilitate high-performance computing by simplifying the implementation of distributed applications on clusters of Windows-based computers. Read more...
About the Microsoft Biology Foundation This language-neutral bioinformatics toolkit is built as an extension to the Microsoft .NET Framework. Read more...
Tools and Services for Research Collaboration
- Microsoft Computational Biology Web Tools
- Tools for Computational Science
- Database, HPC, and Cloud Services for Scientists
- Managing Scientific Workflows
- Microsoft Office Add-ins for Scientists
- Publication and Conference Management for Scientists
- Software Tools for Computational Biology
- Tools for Web Search Research
Events and Demos for Tools and Services
- "Microsoft Research Amazing Scenarios" at Microsoft PDC 2008
- "Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench," at Microsoft eScience Workshop 2008
- Technology Directions – Faculty Summit 2008 Webcasts:
- Microsoft's Parallel Computing Platform: Applied Research in a Product Setting
- What Will Be the Impact of Cloud Services on Science?
- Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers (UPCRC)
- The Future of Research Clouds
- Research Momentum: The Latest Technologies From Microsoft Research
- Tools for Network Science: A How to Guide
- Participation in a World of Choice: Open Source and Microsoft
About Tools and Services
Our goal is to accelerate research by collaborating with academic communities to create open tools and services based on Microsoft platforms and productivity software. By building open software solutions in collaboration with the research community, we help scientists spend more time on their research and less time on IT issues.
