MRI: Acquisition of a Computer Cluster for Bioinformatics Research at UGA

已通过格鲁吉亚大学生物信息学研究所向该大学提供了一笔赠款，用于购置一台高性能多处理器计算机和相应的大磁盘存储容量。这项拟议的收购将有助于，并大大提高，计算能力提供给UGA的生物学家，计算和实验。它将促进计算，物理和生物科学的界面研究，福尔斯五个领域：（a）非编码RNA基因的分析和建模，（B）蛋白质和碳水化合物结构的分析和建模，（c）真核和原核基因组的挖掘，（d）基因表达数据分析，以及（e）代谢途径和调控网络的建模。此次收购将丰富校园内生物信息学和计算生物学学生的研究和教育经验，包括18个参与实验室的75名研究生和52名博士后。调查人员将与UGA合作？的本科生研究机会中心和NSF资助的桃州路易斯斯托克斯少数民族计划，从事本科生，特别是代表性不足的少数民族，在生物信息学研究，使他们将被吸引到研究，利用这一收购。在中等教育一级，该研究所将与数学和科学教育部合作，为高级生物教师提供暑期讲习班。使用Web服务和Web工具来学习生物信息学的想法应该是一种自然的方式，让这些伴随着互联网成长的学生对生物学和科学研究感兴趣。

A grant has been awarded to the University of Georgia through its Institute of Bioinformatics to acquire a high powered multiprocessor computer and a corresponding large disk storage capacity. This proposed acquisition will contribute to, and substantially improve, the computing power available to UGA's biologists, computational and experimental. It will facilitate research at the interface of computational, physical and biological sciences which falls into five areas: (a) analysis and modeling of non-coding RNA genes, (b) analysis and modeling of protein and carbohydrate structures, (c) mining of eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes, (d) gene expression data analysis, and (e) modeling of metabolic pathways and regulatory networks.The acquisition will enrich the research and educational experience of bioinformatics and computational biology students on campus, including 75 graduate students and 52 postdocs in the 18 participating laboratories. The investigators will partner with UGA?s Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities and the NSF-funded Peach State Louis Stokes MinorityProgram, to engage undergraduates, particularly underrepresented minorities, in bioinformatics research, so that they will be drawn into research that makes use of this acquisition. At the secondary education level, the Institute will work with the Mathematics and Science Education Department in to offer summer workshops for A.P. Biology teachers. The idea of using web services and web tools to study bioinformatics should be a natural way to get these students,who have grown up with the Internet, interested in biology and science research.