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，用于购置一台高功率多处理器计算机和相应的大磁盘存储容量。这一收购将有助于，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，物理和生物科学界面的研究，分为五个领域：(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)代谢途径和调节网络的建模。此次收购将丰富该校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。调查人员将与佐治亚大学合作？美国国家科学基金会（nsf）资助的桃州路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔项目（Peach State Louis Stokes MinorityProgram），旨在吸引本科生，特别是代表性不足的少数族裔参与生物信息学研究，从而吸引他们参与利用此次收购的研究。在中等教育层面，研究所将与数学和科学教育系合作，为ap生物教师提供暑期讲习班。使用网络服务和网络工具来学习生物信息学的想法应该是让这些在互联网中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.