Open Source & Scientific Compute

Scientific Software Development Support

Empowering researchers and universities to design, deploy, and scale high-performance computational tools, digital campus ecosystems, and bioinformatics algorithms.

Open-Source Infrastructure

Building Reliable Computational Tools for Modern Science

Financial, technical, and computational resources for software toolmakers.

Robust scientific software and governed digital learning systems form the backbone of contemporary research and university education. UKABCS provides competitive grant funding, high-performance cloud compute, architecture design, and technical mentorship to turn promising ideas into sustainable, production-grade tools.

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Building Reliable Computational Tools for Modern Science

Institutional Grant Call

UKABCS Digital Campus Transformation Grant

£45,000 per faculty: £27,000 UKABCS (60%) and £18,000 university (40%).

A comprehensive £45,000 per faculty co-funded grant establishing a fully governed LMS digital-learning ecosystem, academic content production, automated assessments, and ClientFlow CRM integration.

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UKABCS Digital Campus Transformation Grant

Compute Infrastructure

Subsidised GPU hours for researchers

UKABCS provides GPU compute well below market price. Ebonex Technologies has donated £50,000 in GPU compute to UKABCS as an in-kind partnership contribution. Researchers can submit jobs to the server, run them and receive their results. Discounts depend on the university’s Compute & AI Access Agreement.

Bronze tier

50% discount on GPU hours and AI usage.

Silver tier

60% discount on GPU hours and AI usage.

Gold tier

70% discount on GPU hours and AI usage.

Beyond the grant

Access continues after the grant period, subject to a declared administration fee.

Partner for compute access

AI Research Tools

Specialised AI tools, built by scientists

Instead of general-purpose assistants, UKABCS partners provide specialised agentic AI tools for research, from scientific writing and review to domain analysis. Tools are free for everyone; users pay only for the subsidised compute or AI usage their work consumes.

Tool Contribution Programme

Researchers and graduation project teams build tools in their own specialism, such as AI, CAD or transcriptomics.

Credit & IP

Each tool is credited to its authors under a Tool Contribution Agreement.

Free access

Contributed tools are published for free use by the research community.

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Our work

The 6-Stage Application & Development Process

Structured, collaborative evaluation from proposal submission to final operational handover.

Funding & grants

Support for research projects and capacity-building initiatives in biotechnology and computational science.

Education & training

Learning opportunities, resources and practical support for emerging researchers.

Publishing & conferences

Support for sharing knowledge through open science, publications and scientific events.

Partnerships

Collaboration across academia, industry and society to turn ideas into impact.

Equity & inclusion

Inclusive opportunities that strengthen participation in the global research community.