Microsoft backs biology computing in Italy

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Microsoft and an Italian university will open a computational research center Wednesday to focus on the creation of software applications and computational tools for scientists striving for breakthroughs in biology, the life sciences and drug discovery.

About 30 researchers will work at the Microsoft Research/Trento University Center for Computational and System Biology in Trento, Italy, said Stephen Emmott, director of Microsoft's European Science Initiative, at the company's European Research and Innovation Day in Brussels on Tuesday.