LexisNexis has built its business on bringing together billions of different records from many different sources. Its data and tools allow customers to query those data to find out everything from which middle-aged soccer moms bought white wine last month, to the names of everyone who registered a car last week in San Diego with a license plate that has an "O" and an "H" in it. Recently the company has been working with Sandia National Laboratories to understand whether the LexisNexis data tools might help researchers manage and understand the flood of data coming from the supercomputers and high resolution scientific instruments that drive discovery tod