Palimsest is a program by Google to provide storage and access of scientific data to scientists.
This is very interesting, I've been involved with a few such projects, including the PDB (Protein Databank), iCE (Internet Contig Explorer) and currently I'm builing the Orchive (a database for 30 years of Orca songs).
Storing scientific data is quite an interesting process, because each scientist has a different view of what should be stored and how they would like to access it. I look forward to seeing what the smart kids at Google are going to come up with.
