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Add-ins / Article Authoring Add-In

Enabling reading and writing of XML-based documents in the format used by the National Library of Medicine for scientific articles.

Add-ins / Creative Commons Add-In for Office

This add-in enables you to embed Creative Commons licenses directly into Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents

Add-ins / Math Add-In for Word

This add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007 makes it easier to create graphs, perform calculations, and solve for variables with equations.

Add-ins / Microsoft Office Add-ins for Scientists

New technologies for scientists to advance semantic knowledge discovery.

Add-ins / Microsoft Word Add-In for GenePattern

The Word 2007 add-in supports embedding pipelines in a document and rerunning them on any GenePattern server from the Word application.

Add-ins / SQL Server Data Mining Add-In

These add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007 allow you to use SQL Server predictive analytics in Office Excel 2007 and Office Visio 2007.

Tools / Zentity

A research output repository platform providing a suite of building blocks, tools, and services to create and maintain an organization’s digital library ecosystem.

Tools / Computational Biology

Tools from Microsoft Research include Phylogeny-Based Association Analysis, Epitope Prediction, HLA Assignment, HLA Completion, and more.

Tools / Computational Science

Tools from Microsoft Research and our research partners to support computational science and its use in other research disciplines.

Tools / Conference Management Tool

Sponsored by Microsoft Research, this tool can handle the complex workflow of an academic conference.

Tools / Dryad for Cloud Computing

Dryad is a high-performance general-purpose distributed computing engine that is designed to simplify the task of implementing distributed applications on clusters of Windows-based computers.

Tools / Microsoft XNA Game Studio

Enabling hobbyists, academics, and developers to create games for Xbox 360, Windows, and Zune.

Tools / Project Trident: Scientific Workflow Workbench

Author workflows visually by using a catalog of existing activities and complete workflows. A tiered library hides the complexity of workflow activities and services for ease of use.

Tools / Research Information Center Framework

Built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, this framework helps academic researchers engage in collaborative projects.

Tools / Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express

A set of free tools offering a new editor built in Windows Presentation Foundation and support for the new .NET Framework 4.

Tools / DreamSpark

DreamSpark is a program set up by Microsoft to provide students with software design and development tools at no charge.