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The Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE) is used by investigators in a wide and growing spectrum of research disciplines. Researchers in such diverse fields as biophysics, biostatistics, human genetics, manufacturing supply networks, nanoscience, neuroscience, microelectronics, particle physics, proteomics, and structural biology are using ACCRE resources.

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Research Spotlight: Can we understand the dynamics and structure of the molecules of life?

Structural Biology The ability to search the conformational space available to biomacromolecules such as proteins, RNA and DNA by computational methods such as molecular dynamics simulations is invaluable for the determination of three-dimensional structures.  Simplified versions of the full searches are currently used for the refinement of high-resolution structures derived from NMR and X-ray crystallographic data, largely because of the insufficiency of the available compute power.

A parallel system is uniquely well-suited to this problem, because each processor can be used to perform the requisite calculations for an atom or subset of atoms, thereby increasing the effective throughput and yielding a vast increase in the speed at which such simulations can be completed.

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