Chemist Gregory Verdine was a Harvard professor with a position at a venture fund, but neither job was helping get his new project--building a vast database of natural chemicals that might work as drugs--the money it needed to take off.

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At the Meeting, Mr S. Rakuno from Fiji made a report on challenge and opportunities of the ongoing project to develop a database of ICH in multi-cultural context of the country.

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Korea Telecom replaced an Oracle database with Hadoop after a five-year project to support 17 million telephone subscribers, 7.2 broadband subscribes and 15 million mobile users.

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An 18-month project is being launched to produce the first ever extensive database of Robert Burns manuscripts.

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In 1999 Ed, now 53, and Susan, now 54, were working up North--he as a Fidelity Investments project manager and she as a computer database consultant.

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It culminated in the last decades of his life in a forward-thinking creation he called the Global Jukebox Project, an early computer database that organized and compared various forms based on geography, style, and subsistence patterns.

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Love insists that Hyseq has a unique gene-finding technology that will help it discover genes that have been missed both by other gene database companies and by the U.S. government-funded Human Genome Project.

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