UK National e-Science Centre (NeSC)

NeSC Mission Statement

• To stimulate and sustain the development of e-Science in the UK, to contribute significantly to its international development and to ensure that its techniques are rapidly propagated to commerce and industry.
  

• To identify and support e-Science projects within and between institutions in Scotland, and to provide the appropriate technical infrastructure and support in order to ensure rapid uptake of e-Science techniques by Scottish scientists.
  

• To encourage the interaction and bi-directional flow of ideas between computing science research and e-Science applications
  

To develop advances in scientific data curation and analysis and to be a primary source of top quality systems and repositories that enable management, sharing and best use of research data.

http://www.nesc.ac.uk/index.html