May 2022
Bargain proteins
A Flatiron Institute biologist uses supercomputers and their quantum cousins to streamline the search for promising drugs.
Category Archives: Biology
December 2021
Protein shakeup
Virus and other biology simulations will get a big boost from Oak Ridge’s Frontier exascale computer.
August 2021
DNA repair 2.0
Oak Ridge’s Summit supercomputer simulates a shape-shifting protein that’s a key part of life’s machinery.
May 2021
Countering COVID
An ambitious hunt for antiviral therapies underscores how DOE high-performance computers can offer rapid results in health emergencies.
April 2021
On cancer’s trail
With supercomputer power from Oak Ridge’s Summit, Duke researchers aim to follow circulating cancer cells to understand metastasis.
November 2019
Spying on cancer
With an assist from the Mira supercomputer, researchers are tuning an imaging technique to detect possible cancers in their early stages.
April 2019
Biting back at the flu bug
Supercomputer power is providing influenza insights to help drug designers produce a more effective vaccine.
September 2018
Overcoming resistance
To revive antibiotics and devise new drug designs, Georgia Tech researchers team up with Oak Ridge’s Titan supercomputer.
March 2018
Protein shape-sifting
Rice University team computes protein conformations for paths around autoimmunity.
May 2017
Brain-like computing
Biologically inspired architectures create opportunities and obstacles.