BIOCORE

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. BioCoRE [114] (http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/biocore/) is a web-based collaborative environment designed to enhance biomedical research and training. By using a standard web-browser (on a desktop or laptop computer or handheld PDA) scientists create projects in which all private data is secure and is shared only within the specific project team. Researchers use BioCoRE to create input files for supercomputer runs, submit jobs to remote sites including supercomputers, and share the visualization of molecular systems across distances. BioCoRE features a synchronous and asynchronous chat, a project-wide ¿bookmarks¿ file for sharing web links, as well as a web-based filesystem. Summary pages within BioCoRE regularly inform the project team of the project status. Major BioCoRE developments in the past year include a programming interface for supercomputer job submission that allows other programs to easily use BioCoRE to submit computational jobs, and a plugin for VMD that allows users to interact with BioCoRE in a convenient way. In addition, BioCoRE became more ¿open¿ in the past year ¿ non-members can now view information about public projects within BioCoRE without registering, and a new ¿guest user¿ has been added where users can register for BioCoRE much more quickly than before. Future BioCoRE efforts will focus on tighter integration with other biomedical packages, such as VMD and NAMD.