BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH SUPPORT

这项建议是新闻部的一项重大新举措， 化学，加州大学伯克利分校，建立一个 计算图形网络和可视化设施。 其直接 具体目标是提供一个环境， 生物医学相关科学部门的研究人员可以想象 关于分子结构的复杂实验或模拟数据， 动力学 教师将与校园超级计算机连接 和化学学院X射线晶体学实验室。 它将 提供必要的高水平的最先进的硬件和软件， 以及培训如何使用可视化技术。 以这种方式 该设施将被大量的人有效地使用，并将 鼓励以前没有经验的用户参与 视觉化 用户组的研究说明清楚地表明， 将复杂的、有时是动态的过程可视化的能力 变得极其重要。 它将提高我们确定 蛋白质和核酸的结构。 蛋白质的设计 非天然氨基酸，催化抗体的设计将是 援助。 脂质双层动力学及电子传递的研究 在生物系统中，将由快速图形渲染设备支持。 然而，从长远来看，综合部门设施和网络 对于可视化将有一个更深刻的影响的性质 在伯克利化学系进行的研究。 理论和 实验研究小组将讨论他们的具体需求， 分子结构和动力学的可视化和分析。 这将 促进新一代计算工具的发展 适合于生物医学科学的研究。

This proposal represents a major new initiative by the Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, to establish a Computational Graphics Network and Visualization Facility. Its immediate and specific aims are to provide an environment where all of the departments' researchers in the Biomedically related sciences can visualize complex experimental or simulation data about molecular structure and dynamics. The faculty will be interfaced with the Campus Supercomputers and with College of Chemistry X-ray Crystallographic Laboratory. It will provide the necessary high-level state-of-the-art hardware and software, as well as training in the use of visualization techniques. In this way the facility will be efficiently used by a large number of people, and will encourage the participation of users who have no previous experience of visualization. The research descriptions of the user group make clear that the ability to visualize complex and sometimes dynamical processes has become extremely important. It will enhance our capacity to determine the structure of proteins and nucleic acids. The design of proteins with unnatural amino acids, and the design of catalytic antibodies will be aided. Studies on the dynamics of the lipid-bilayer and electron transport in biological systems will be supported by fast graphics rendering devices. However, in the long term, the Integrated Departmental Facility and Network for Visualization will have a more profound effect on the nature of research carried out in the Chemistry Department at Berkeley. Theory and experimental research groups will discuss their specific needs in visualization and analysis of molecular structure and dynamics. This will stimulate the evolution of a new generation of computational tools appropriate for research in the Biomedical Sciences.