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Solving the protein puzzle
11 months ago

Solving the protein puzzle

By  •  11 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

A simple scoop of soil or water can hold an entire ecosystem–potentially millions or more microscopic organisms and the countless proteins they rely on to survive.

Computations performed at the …
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Scientists Use Summit Supercomputer, Deep Learning to Predict Protein Functions at Genome Scale
2 years ago

Scientists Use Summit Supercomputer, Deep Learning to Predict Protein Functions at Genome Scale

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, Science

by Kim Askey, askeyka@ornl.gov, 865.576.2841

A team of scientists led by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) …
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Gordon Bell Special Prize Finalist Team Reveals AI Workflow for Molecular Systems in the Era of COVID-19
3 years ago

Gordon Bell Special Prize Finalist Team Reveals AI Workflow for Molecular Systems in the Era of COVID-19

By  •  3 years ago  •  Science

Since a team at the University of Texas at Austin and the National Institutes of Health first mapped the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein—the main infection machinery of the virus that causes …
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Two Finalists Nominated for Gordon Bell Special Prize for COVID-19 Work on Summit
3 years ago

Two Finalists Nominated for Gordon Bell Special Prize for COVID-19 Work on Summit

By  •  3 years ago  •  Science

Every year at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), one deserving team is awarded the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize to …
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ORNL Team Enlists World’s Fastest Supercomputer to Combat the Coronavirus
4 years ago

ORNL Team Enlists World’s Fastest Supercomputer to Combat the Coronavirus

By  •  4 years ago  •  Science

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have used the world’s most powerful and smartest supercomputer, the IBM AC922 Summit, to identify 77 small-molecule drug …
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Chromosome Connectors Take Center Stage for ORNL Scientists Studying Poplar
4 years ago

Chromosome Connectors Take Center Stage for ORNL Scientists Studying Poplar

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

The black cottonwood tree, or Populus trichocarpa (poplar), serves as a model organism for scientists studying the structure, growth, development, and genetics of plants. Poplar was the first tree genome scientists …
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Summit Charts a Course to Uncover the Origins of Genetic Diseases
4 years ago

Summit Charts a Course to Uncover the Origins of Genetic Diseases

By  •  4 years ago  •  Science

A visualization of a new structure of the human PIC. The spheres correspond to the positions of patient-derived mutations color-coded by disease phenotype. Video credit: Ivaylo Ivanov, …
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Genomics Code Exceeds Exaops on Summit Supercomputer
5 years ago

Genomics Code Exceeds Exaops on Summit Supercomputer

By  •  5 years ago  •  Featured, Technology

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory broke the exascale barrier, achieving a peak throughput of 1.88 exaops—faster than any previously reported science application—while analyzing genomic …
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A Novel Method for Comparing Plant Genes
6 years ago

A Novel Method for Comparing Plant Genes

By  •  6 years ago  •  Science

During normal photosynthesis, plants capture sunlight and carry out respiration during the day, taking in carbon dioxide that will be used to form carbohydrates. But a small percentage of plant …
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Sodium Shakedown in Dopamine Research
6 years ago

Sodium Shakedown in Dopamine Research

By  •  6 years ago  •  Science

The chemical neurotransmitter dopamine is critical to sending and receiving signals in the nervous system linked to motor movements, learning, and habit formation, which is why many therapies for drug …
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A Real CAM-Do Attitude
6 years ago

A Real CAM-Do Attitude

By  •  6 years ago  •  Science

Photosynthesis, the method plants use to convert energy from the sun into food, is a ubiquitous process many people learn about in elementary school. Almost all plants use photosynthesis to …
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One Billion Processor Hours Awarded to 22 Projects through ALCC
7 years ago

One Billion Processor Hours Awarded to 22 Projects through ALCC

By  •  7 years ago  •  Science

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has awarded nearly 1 billion processor hours to 22 projects at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)— a DOE Office …
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Broadening the Bilayer
7 years ago

Broadening the Bilayer

By  •  7 years ago  •  Science

To better understand the biological processes that govern lipid raft formation—processes with broad implications for research ranging from how cells regulate proteins to how viruses invade healthy human cells—ORNL researchers are using two world-class research facilities to study the presence and formation of these nanoscale lipid patches.
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Researchers recruit Titan to study key molecular switch that controls cell behavior

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

Using computational molecular dynamics simulations, researchers at ORNL and the University of Tennessee–ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Sciences have discovered a molecular “switch” in a receptor that controls cell behavior.
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Peering into Cells One GPU at a Time
10 years ago

Peering into Cells One GPU at a Time

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

A simulation of the internal workings of cells has reached a sustained performance of 20,000 trillion calculations per second, or 20 petaflops, on the Titan supercomputer at ORNL.
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Titan Shows Life Science Advancements at Bio-IT Conference

By  •  10 years ago  •  People

OLCF Director of Science Jack Wells spoke recently to the annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, sharing ORNL’s supercomputing experience.
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