Swinburne IT students create innovative software

Swinburne TAFE information technology students have created a range of innovative software packages. Two of the packages will influence communications within the Australian Department of Defence and assist in vital research being conducted at Monash University into the structure of proteins.

As part of their two-year Diploma of Information Technology (Software Development), students at Swinburne's Croydon, Prahran and Wantirna campuses spent the past six months working on a broad range of specialised computing projects for clients in non-profit organisations.

The projects were officially launched at an event at Swinburne's Lilydale campus where co-ordinator of the software development course, Richard Forster, paid tribute to the students for the range of inspirational programs they had devised.

For example, the Crystallography Laboratory Information Management System (CLIMS) has been developed by the Integrated Computing Solutions Group for scientists in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department at Monash University. The high-quality information management system will be used to record all data from scientific experiments looking at the structure of proteins.

Scientists in the department says CLIMS will assist their vital research and allow them to undertake more experiments.

Item provided courtesy of Swinburne University of Technology