Research

Biologists and mathematicians from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have accelerated the rate at which a computer can predict the structure of protein complexes in a cell

Researchers from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) have created a bioinformatics tool, WREGEX 2.0, to predict the effect of cancer-related mutations. Created by a multidisciplinary team the software can analyse up to 40,000 proteins per minute

Certara, a specialist in simulation-enabled drug development, has announced that the US Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine has extended a five year research agreement until 2020.

The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), a research institute based in the UK, has dramatically reduced the time to perform large genome assembly with the installation of a new supercomputing platform based on two SGI UV 300 systems

IBM Research has announced it is making quantum computing available to members of the public, who can access and run experiments on IBMs quantum processor through the cloud

Zoe Cournia, a computational chemist and assistant professor level investigator at the Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, has been selected as the recipient of the 1st PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC

Cambridge University spin-out Optalysys has been awarded a $350k grant for a 13-month project from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Researchers at Purdue University are using cryo-electron microscopy and advanced computing to develop a detailed 3D image of the structure of the Zika virus