ENVIRO SENSING, METABOLIC RESPONSE, & REGULATORY NETWORKS IN RESPIRATORY SYS

总体描述(申请人提供)：国家生物医学中心的总体任务 计算资源是通过利用最前沿的计算和信息技术来进行、催化和实现生物医学研究。该资源的主要目标是提供对新的和新兴的网格基础设施的透明访问，该基础设施将为生物医学科学家提供集成的计算、数据、物理、实验和人力资源，他们正在研究从小分子药物设计和比较基因组学到诊断脑成像和心血管疾病等广泛的生物组织规模的重要医学问题。为实现这一目标，这项资源将： 1.在透明的高级网格中集成计算数据和可视化资源 支持更好地访问分布式数据、计算资源、仪器的环境 还有人。 2.开发和部署先进的计算工具，用于建模和仿真、数据分析、 查询和集成、三维图像处理和交互可视化。 3.为生物医学研究人员提供和支持先进的网格/网络基础设施。 4.培养一批新的研究人员，使他们掌握实验生物学和与生物医学科学家有关的计算技术的跨学科实用知识。 核心技术研究将汇集关键的网格技术，并解决生物医学 跨越规模的问题，并将重点放在序列结构和功能之间的关系上。 协作服务、培训和传播部分都与扩大这些技术的使用有关。 核心项目包括： *支持计算网格的方法，用于模拟和集成多尺度、亚细胞 过程，从从头算量子力学到连续介质力学。 *数据集成和启用网格的分析工具，用于分子序列到集成数据 消息来源创建了一个数据实验室。 *结构和功能集成、网格感知的细胞和器官生物物理学建模。 *用于多尺度生物医学建模的可视化环境。 *面向多尺度生物医学应用的网格计算和分析服务。 鉴于拟议活动的范围，NBCR将提供创新的软件工具和网格可访问的资源，涵盖不同规模的生物医学研究。

OVERALL DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall mission of the National Biomedical Computation Resource is to conduct, catalyze and enable biomedical research by harnessing forefront computational and information technologies. The key aim of this resource is to provide transparent access to the new and emerging grid infrastructure that will deliver integrated compute, data, physical, experimental, and human resources to biomedical scientists investigating a wide range of medically important problems spanning scales of biological organization from small molecule drug design and comparative genomics to diagnostic brain imaging and cardiovascular disease. To achieve this aim, this resource will: 1. Integrate computational data and visualization resources in a transparent, advanced grid environment to enable better access to distributed data, computational resources, instruments and people. 2. Develop and deploy advanced computational tools for modeling and simulation, data analysis, query and integration, three-dimensional image processing, and interactive visualization. 3. Deliver and support advanced grid/Cyber-infrastructure for biomedical researchers. 4. Train a cadre of new researchers such that they have an interdisciplinary, working knowledge both of experimental biology and of computational technology relevant to biomedical scientists. The core technology research will bring together key grid technologies and address biomedical problems that span scales and focus understanding on the relationship between sequence structure and function. The collaborative service, training and dissemination components all relate to expanding the use of these technologies. The core projects include: *Computational grid-enable approaches for simulating and integrating multi-scale, sub-cellular processes, from ab initio quantum mechanics to continuum mechanics. *Data integration and grid-enabled analytic tools for molecular sequences to integrated data sources to created a data laboratory. *Structurally and functionally integrated, grid-aware modeling of cell and organ biophysics. *Visual environments for multi-scale biomedical modeling. *Grid computing and analysis services for multi-scale biomedical applications. Given the scope of the proposed activities, the NBCR will deliver innovative software tools and grid- accessible resources covering different scales of biomedical research.