Macromolecular Modeling Blog ™

The NIH recently announced a proposal solicitation for use of the Blue Waters petascale computing system.

They will be giving a videocast on December 17th and of course molecular modeling is at the top of the list of priorities:

“Because of the considerable NIGMS investment in protein folding and prediction of protein structure from sequence, we will explore this area during the videocast.”

See the full post on the NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog.

Next week, RDG will be teaching a three day course at the Center of Information Technology of the National Institutes of Health:

#468 Rosetta Hands-On Workshop

These are days of a world wide economic turmoil, most of the industry is effected and the academia as well. But even within the academia, certain fields are funded better than others. What happened to the molecular modeling funding?

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