The ability to visualize time-varying phenomena is absolutely essential to ensure correct interpretation and analysis, provoke insights, and communicate those insights to others. State-of-the-art scientific computing technologies allow accurate numerical modeling, animation sequences, etc., of many physical and chemical processes in their spatial and temporal domains, letting scientists to freely explore the domains. The fast understanding of every domain and sub-domain of research and facilitation in day-to-day working by development of complex algorithms and continuous improvement for increasing efficacy, and reducing time and space (distance) are the key of IT revolution. This article is oriented towards the current IT developments and evolving standards for the research support in the areas of biology, chemistry, ecology, etc. Initially, the article highlights various emerging fields and their affinity areas, and in the subsequent sections, it focuses on the various ongoing IT researches.
Studying
dynamic aspects of physical and chemical processes is critical
to the advances of many sciences. Our sciences have records
and statistics dating back to medieval period. Since then
the science has established several milestones which are reflected
by the volume of data collected so far and there are several
other milestones that are still untouched. An increasingly
challenging problem, that must be addressed, is how to effectively
explore and understand the resulting time-varying volume data
that is large in space, time and variable domain (from five
to over 100 variables). Further, it is desired to have an
analysis model for characterizing time-varying data to be
carried out in collaborative fashion which demands the homogeneous
data representation and sharing. These capabilities are provided
by new but fairly matured science, Information Technology
(IT), an amalgamation of tools and techniques for efficient
and effective presentation of information, backed up by the
mathematical transformation and modeling of data.
The
advent of IT has left no corner untouched in every walk of
life. Besides simplifying life; it has evolved as a research
facilitator, usually encapsulating interdisciplinary studies
in varied capacities. The development of latest equipment
for the researches in medical and chemical sciences are all
supported and dictated by the IT researches. IT supports research
by understanding the fields better, developing algorithms
for resolving complex issues and improvising these algorithms
for better visualization of the fields. |
