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Taipei Times
Computing power used in mapping of human genome pushing new frontiers"While commercials featuring sweaty young dancers and hip music have been the mainstay for many industries, computer server makers discovered long ago that a metal box stuffed with microchips and wires simply lacked sex appeal. So they turned to tests of raw computing power to prove their superiority, like when IBM's Deep Blue put chess champion Garry Kasparov in checkmate four years ago.
While IBM's muscle machine stood as a monument in its time, Compaq computer may have found the ultimate ad in this battle for computing power, the Human Genome project."
redux [09.14.00]
"With the completion of a "rough draft" of the entire human genome in June, government and corporate scientists have assembled enough genetic code to fill 2,000 computer diskettes.
Now, the scientific footrace shifts from spelling out the seemingly endless string of "A's," "C's," "T's," and "G's" that make up our DNA, to actually understanding what it means.
That's where a new field of "bioinformatics" comes in."
"Researchers at the University of Idaho are building their own "super" computer using parts from 40 to 100 desktop PCs. The hardware will cost only about $44,000, but with the proper connections, the system will be sophisticated enough to run experiments on "jumping genes," bits of genetic material that migrate along the DNA double helix like microscopic hitchhikers.
James Foster, the computer scientist at the University of Idaho directing the project, said that building better programs called algorithms is more important to understanding biological data than just building bigger computers.
"Nature can always defeat brute-force approaches," says James Limpan, director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Rockville, Md.
"We need the most clever ways of measuring things and not more CPU power," he says."
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“Bioinformatics will be at the core of biology in the 21st century. In fields ranging from structural biology to genomics to biomedical imaging, ready access to data and analytical tools are fundamentally changing the way investigators in the life sciences conduct research and approach problems. Complex, computationally intensive biological problems are now being addressed and promise to significantly advance our understanding of biology and medicine. No biological discipline will be unaffected by these technological breakthroughs.”
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