Scientific Computing World

Scientific Computing World, the premier European magazine covering the latest developments in the use of computers in science and technology, was acquired by CPL in late 1999. In August 2003, it was taken over by Europa Science Ltd, CPL's science publishing joint venture; CPL continues to provide design and production for the title.

The editorial content of the magazine has been strengthened and broadened to cover the explosion of interest in bioinformatics and the application of advanced computational techniques to gene sequencing, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Many of these applications - and the people who have been developing them - come from "traditional" areas of computer science and from the physical sciences. Scientific Computing World is therefore be careful to maintain the magazine's high reputation in such traditional areas in computational physics, chemistry and engineering, and in laboratory information management systems.

The magazine is edited by Dr Tom Wilkie, one of Britain's best-known science journalists. Dr Wilkie was for 10 years the science editor of the UK newspaper The Independent, where he established the newspaper's reputation for taking science seriously in a way that few quality papers then did. Before The Independent Dr Wilkie was Features Editor of New Scientist magazine, having started his career working for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. He has twice been awarded the Association of British Science Writers/Glaxo prize for science writing.

Prior to joining Europa Science Ltd, Dr Wilkie was Head of Biomedical Ethics at the Wellcome Trust, the UK biomedical funding charity which has financed most of the European human genome sequencing project.

Scientific Computing World has its own website at www.scientific-computing.com.