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?
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.
Read more about structural biology research.
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