News Archives
October 5, 2009
VBI awarded $27 Million from NIH to Support Infectious Disease Research
Rick Stevens to lead CI effort to make the RAST annotation services more broadly available as part of $27 NIH contract recently awarded to the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. RAST is a fully automated genomics tool that can greatly help in accelerating the identification of genes and assigning functions to those genes. |read >
September 23, 2009
Bio-Computing a Major Focus of 22nd Annual SC Conference
Jonathan Silverstein, professor of surgery and associate director of the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory: Grid Technology Transforming Healthcare. He will focus on how our healthcare system is being transformed by new HPC techniques that promote integration, interoperability and secured access to biomedical data on a national scale... |read >
September 11, 2009
caBIG® in Action: Speeding research with data analysis workflows
Since its inception, the goal of caBIG® has been to reduce the burden of cancer by enabling the type of collaborative research that these workflows support. Ravi Madduri, a computer scientist at the University of Chicago and long time participant in the caBIG® program, has been working for the last two years with a team at the University of Manchester (UK) to develop a solution to this challenge-a user-friendly tool to create reusable analysis workflows. |read >
August 27, 2009
$30 Million Grant to Enhance World's Largest Open Computing Network
A $30 million National Science Foundation grant will enable the University of Chicago to expand and extend until 2011 the operation of TeraGrid, a national system of interconnected supercomputers devoted to leading-edge scientific discovery and science and technology education. |read >
August 7, 2009
University of Chicago Appoints Tobin R. Sosnick Director of Biological Sciences Division and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics
Sosnick is Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Institute of Biophysical Dynamics, and a senior fellow in the CI. His research focuses on synergistic studies of protein and RNA folding and design... |read >
July 23, 2009
Foster reappointed Director of Computation Institute
Ian Foster has been reappointed Director of the Computation Institute for a three-year term with a mandate to continue building the University's thriving community of computational scientists.
A joint project between the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, the institute addresses the most challenging problems arising in the use of strategic computation and communications. |read >
July 22, 2009
Computing Enables Identification of Microbe DNA in Soil
The traditional method for studying a microbe is to cultivate it in the lab and examine its biology in detail. However, lab cultivation is possible for only a small fraction of microbe species. Scientists have thus turned to metagenomics - the computation-reliant study of DNA extracted from environmental samples rather than from cultivated organisms... |read >
July 21, 2009
PETSc Wins 2009 R&D 100 Award
Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory's Mathematics and Computer Science Division received an R&D 100 award for PETSc, high-performance software for engineering and science. Judged by R&D magazine, the awards recognize the top scientific and technological innovations of the past year... |read >
July 17, 2009
Argonne's Midwest Center for Structural Genomics Determines 1,000th Protein Structure
For nearly a decade, researchers at the Midwest Center for Structural Genomics (MCSG), an international consortium led by Andrzej Joachimiak at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, have been patiently cracking the genetic code of important proteins. |read >
June 17, 2009
Argonne Technology Enables High-speed Data Transfer
GridFTP, a protocol developed by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, has been used to transfer unprecedented amounts of data over the Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), which provides a reliable, high-performance communications infrastructure to facilitate large-scale, collaborative science endeavors. |read >
