[news.announce.conferences] Supercomputing in Medical and Biological Research

jmaizel@ncifcrf.gov (Jacob Maizel) (03/27/89)

                 MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING AND
                          SCIENCES SYMPOSIUM
                                OF THE
                     4-TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
                         ON SUPERCOMPUTING AND
                  3-RD WORLD SUPERCOMPUTING EXHIBITION

                 SANTA CLARA, CA, APRIL 30--MAY 5, 1989


As part of the Fourth International Conference on Supercomputing, Santa
Clara Convention Center, there will be a Medical and Biological Engineering
and Sciences Symposium which features supercomputer uses in conformational
calculations, human genome program, macromolecular systems, and drug design
from top researchers of leading national and international institutions.

HEADLINES:

   SUPERCOMPUTING IN CONFORMATIONAL CALCULATIONS for Globular Proteins from
   the University of California at San Francisco; Washington University;
   Laboratory of Mathematical Biology, National Cancer Institute

   CONFORMATIONAL CALCULATIONS FOR NUCLEIC ACIDS from the Laboratory of
   Mathematical Biology, National Institutes of Health and Rutgers
   University

   COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES OF THE HUMAN GENOME PROGRAM, Its Physical
   Mappings and Sequence Similarity Searches from the Center for Human
   Genome Studies at Los Alamos National Lab; Lawrence Livermore National
   Lab; and Edinburgh University, UK

   SUPERCOMPUTER SIMULATIONS ON SOLVATED MACROMOLECULAR SYSTEMS and Other
   Macromolecular Substructures from Stanford University, University of
   Southern California, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and University
   of Houston

   DRUG DESIGN OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS FOR CANCER and AIDS; Zinc Metallo
   Enzymes; the Use of the Distance Geometry Approach in Ligand
   -Macromolecule Docking; Studies of Oligosaccharide Dynamics, and
   Modeling of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Agonist from Scripps
   Clinic and Research Foundation, University of Texas at San Antonio,
   Penn State University, E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co., and New Jersey
   Institute of Technology

For information also see the 50 page Advance Program detailing conference
fees, reservations, hotels, etc.  Please contact Prof. Lana P. Kartashev,
International Supercomputing Institute, Inc., 3000 - 34th Street South,
Suite B-309, St. Petersburg, Florida  33711, tel. (813)866-2694.