One of the world's largest manufacturers and suppliers of hardware and software, IBM claims that blockchain technology can be used in conducting scientific research and can make significant contributions to this process, according to the patent application filed by a team at IBM's Watson Research Center.
The document presents a vision for a dynamic collaboration of blockchain and research process. Thus, the distributed ledger technology allows researchers to track their work across institutional borders.
"The blockchain system can form a blockchain representing a research project, wherein the blockchain comprises a first block of research data and a second block of analysis data representing a log of an analysis performed on the research data. Summary blocks and correction blocks can also be added to the blockchain representing the post analysis of the research results."
Earlier it was reported that IBM collaborated with Seagate, a company specializing in hard disk drives and storage solutions in order to provide guarantees for the authenticity of hard drives.
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