Supercomputing Human Diseases
April 6, 2010 | Terry Sharrer
Medical researchers and physicians at the University of Melbourne (state of Victoria) and IBM’s Research Computational Biology group in Australia have begun a collaboration known as the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative. Their intention is to use IBM’s “Blue Gene” supercomputer to do MRI and PET image analysis, lay the basis for effective clinical genomics, define the physical features of biological molecules, and integrate molecular data into a finer understanding of genes, proteins, cells, tissues, organs and organisms. This is IBM’s largest collaboration in the life sciences, but it has similar projects in Dublin, Ireland; Shenyang and Shanghai, China; Taipei, Taiwan, and Hyderabad, India. MORE