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

格鲁吉亚大学通过其生物信息学研究所获得了一笔赠款，用于购买一台高性能多处理器计算机和相应的大磁盘存储容量。这项拟议中的收购将有助于并极大地提高UGA生物学家在计算和实验方面的计算能力。它将促进计算、物理和生物科学之间的研究，这五个领域包括：(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。调查人员将与加州大学S本科生研究机会中心和美国国家科学基金会资助的桃州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族项目合作，让本科生，特别是未被充分代表的少数族裔参与生物信息学研究，以便他们将被吸引到利用这一收购的研究中。在中学教育方面，该学院将与数学及科学教育系合作，为初级生物教师提供暑期工作坊。使用Web服务和Web工具学习生物信息学的想法应该是让这些伴随着互联网长大的学生对生物学和科学研究感兴趣的一种自然方式。

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.