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We here at CSC follow phenomena, trends, breakthroughs and pioneering efforts that affect our field. We are active participants in social debate and strive to influence national and international operating conditions in an effort to support our customers' success.Content with Viewpoints .
DeepFin: State-of-the-art natural language processing for Finnish
A major challenge in implementing the BERT method for a variety of languages has been the sheer volume of text input and computational power required to train the model properly. The BERT method was implemented for Finnish in DeepFin, one of CSC's 2019 Grand Challenge pilot projects.
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Structural biology guiding development of new SARS-Cov2 therapies
Ville Paavilainen at the University of Helsinki is researching a small molecule inhibitor that may prove useful in blocking SARS-CoV2 virus from replicating and thereby preventing the COVID-19 disease.
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Using computer simulations in search of drugs against SARS-CoV-2
The researchers are searching areas on the surface of the new corona virus S-protein to which the drug could bind while preventing the virus from binding the ACE2 protein on the surface of human cells. The computing capacity reserved by CSC for research against the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly accelerated the progress of the research.
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CSC offered resources in a virtual Biohackathon helping to develop new tools for COVID-19 analysis
More than 20 different projects and over 500 scientists, software developers and clinicians met in the online event from 5 to 11 April with a goal to improve the accessibility of COVID-19 data, protocols, analysis pipelines and provide dedicated compute resources to execute demanding data analysis tasks.
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European Health Data Space: mobilising data for health innovation and AI development
Done in the right way, the European Health Data Space could boost research and new technologies for better health, resilience and competitiveness.
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Pysyville tunnisteille kansallinen tiekartta
Pysyvistä tunnisteista (PID) on verkkoympäristössä selkeää hyötyä ja ne säästävät työtä. Jotta toimintamallit ja vastuut ovat selkeitä, Suomessa toimiva asiantuntijoista muodostuva PID-verkosto on vastikään julkaissut Kansallisen PID-tiekartan.
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CSC’s recommendations for the implementation of Finland’s digital compass, part 1: Boosting data economy and the RDI ecosystem
The digital transformation is expected to be a game changer for the whole society. But do we fully understand the impact of digitalization, and what it requires at societal level?
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CSC in the European EUDAT
The EUDAT membership allows CSC to offer its customers high quality data services based on EUDAT technology. EUDAT's B2 product family helps researchers manage their research data. For service providers, the EUDAT consortium enables the sharing of work between different centers.
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Case KAVI: CSC supports the preservation of Finnish radio and television heritage
KAVI preserves films and film-related materials as well as television programs for our decendants. CSC maintains KAVI´s radio and television program archives and provides the live streaming services so that the films and programs can be watched and heard by our users today, as well as the future generations.
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