April 2021
On cancer’s trail
With supercomputer power from Oak Ridge’s Summit, Duke researchers aim to follow circulating cancer cells to understand metastasis.
Category Archives: Biology
November 2019
Spying on cancer
With an assist from the Mira supercomputer, researchers are tuning an imaging technique to detect possible cancers in their early stages.
April 2019
Biting back at the flu bug
Supercomputer power is providing influenza insights to help drug designers produce a more effective vaccine.
September 2018
Overcoming resistance
To revive antibiotics and devise new drug designs, Georgia Tech researchers team up with Oak Ridge’s Titan supercomputer.
March 2018
Protein shape-sifting
Rice University team computes protein conformations for paths around autoimmunity.
May 2017
Brain-like computing
Biologically inspired architectures create opportunities and obstacles.
June 2013
Hard target
A supercomputer has modeled the HIV capsid, opening drug possibilities.
July 2011
The cloud versus E. coli
A European E. coli outbreak tests a DOE cloud computing testbed.
March 2011
Pinpointing proteins
A PNNL team’s method ratchets up accuracy to identify peptides.
March 2011
Simulating Life
Simulating biology from the subcellular to the whole human will require a big-picture view made possible only through exascale computing.