curtiss@umiacs.umd.edu (Phil J. Curtiss) (04/26/91)
I am trying to look into forming a biocomputation lab here at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. I would be interested in any information about labs that currently exist and their main areas of study and general kinds of projects that make use of the lab. The Institute currently has a Parallel Processing Lab and I intend to make the parallel systems available to projects in the biocomputation lab. We are currently planning on getting a Stardent 3000 series machine and connecting it to our Connection Machine via VME-BUS (no small task) to do modeling, simulation and visualization. We also hope to be able to provide various levels of programming for scientists who wish to use the biocomputation lab. Well, I basically just wanted to introduce the idea and find out if there are any labs specifically dealing with biocomputation out there already and if so, how they have approached the issues such a lab would face. I also wanted to know if a biocomputation lab (as such) would be of use to individuals and get a general feel for the kinds of projects that would be able to make use of such a lab. Please let me know if there is any interest and thanks for any input. -- Domain: curtiss@umiacs.umd.edu Phillip Curtiss UUCP: uunet!mimsy!curtiss UMIACS - Univ. of Maryland Phone: +1-301-405-6710 College Park, Md 20742
rdkeys@ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu (04/26/91)
Write the computer lab here at NCSU Dept. of Crop Science.
Dr. Gail Wilkerson,
Dept. of Crop Science,
NCSU
Raleigh, NC 27695-7620.
She runs a lab with several folks in it doing all kinds of
plant biology stuff.
Perhaps she would have some pointers/recommendations for you.
rdkeys@ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu
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Phone: +1-301-405-6710 College Park, Md 20742dolber@cs.duke.edu (04/27/91)
You might try contacting the National Biomedical Simulation Resource here
in Durham:
NBSR
One Univ. Place
Suite 250
Durham, NC 27707
Toll-free number: 1-800-334-2083. They're probably on usenet, but I don't
know their net address. Regards, Paul Dolber (dolber@cs.duke.edu).
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Phone: +1-301-405-6710 College Park, Md 20742mdd@princeton.edu (Marios D. Dikaiakos) (04/27/91)
I am aware of a lab in the Dept of Physics in UIUC, doing
work on Molecular Dynamics Simulations on a systolic ring
of transputers. The person to contact is Helmut Heller,
heller@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
Here at the Dept of Computer Science at Princeton University,
my advisor prof. Ken Steiglitz, prof. Anne Rogers, and myself
have started looking into issues relating to protein structure.
Our background in chemistry, and biology is poor, but we are
looking for some computationally challenging problems in order
to find promising problems for work in Computer Architecture
and systems.
regards,
Marios Dikaiakos
Dept of Computer Science
Princeton University
35 Olden Str
Princeton, NJ 08544-2087
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Phone: +1-301-405-6710 College Park, Md 20742shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) (04/27/91)
There are lots. Cy LEvinthal, who died in November, was highly influential
in this area, and the facility he started is still active; current
administrator is ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu; you could write to him.
Also, Phil Bourne is active at the Medical Shool; he is
system@cuhhca.hhmi.columbia.edu.
The term biocomputation by itself doesn't mean anything, however, and who
the right person is to speak to depends very much on what you have in mind.
(molecular graphics? molecular simulations? crystallographic refinement?
sequence searching? 3D-image reconstruction? image processing? ecosystem
modeling? evolutionary simulations?...... etc.)
-P.
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