A Symposium Highlighting Recent Research
Using the NIH Biowulf Cluster

Tuesday, February 3, 2009
8:30 am - 3:00 pm
Lipsett Amphitheater


In the last decade, the NIH Biowulf cluster has grown from 80 processors to 6500 processors, making it one of the larger general-purpose biomedical computing clusters in the world. NIH intramural researchers have used Biowulf for scientific computation related to genomics, molecular dynamics, image processing, statistical analysis, and other biomedical fields resulting in over 70 papers published in 2008.

The Helix Systems, CIT presents a one-day symposium focusing on recent research that has utilized the computational resources of the NIH Biowulf cluster.


Program

8:30 am		Light refreshments
9:00 am		Opening remarks John F. Jones, Jr., CIO, NIH.
9:15 am		Biowulf: 10 Years of Large-scale Computing at the NIH Helix Systems Staff, CIT
9:30 am		De Novo Protein Structure Generation from Incomplete Chemical Shift Assignments   Ad Bax, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK
10:00 am		Modeling Toxic Alzheimer Amyloid Ion Channels   Ruth Nussinov, Computational Structural Biology Group, CCR Nanobiology Program, NCI
10:30 am		Replica Exchange Simulations of Protein-Protein Binding and Multi-Protein Complex Formation   Youngchan Kim and Gerhard Hummer, Theoretical Biophysics Section, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK
11:00 am		Biowulf: Molecular Dynamics and Parallel Computation Helix Systems Staff, CIT
11:10 am		Population Substructure and Control Selection in Genome-wide Association Studies   Kai Yu, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI
11:40 am		Influence of Genomic Variance on the Transcriptome in Human Brain Tissues   J. Raphael Gibbs and Andrew Singleton, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, NIA
12:05 pm		Break for lunch
1:00 pm		Swarms and Bundles: Bioinformatics and Biostatistics on Biowulf Helix Systems Staff, CIT
1:10 pm		Computing the Molecular Structures of Cells and Viruses using 3D Electron Microscopy   Sriram Subramaniam, Biophysics Section, Laboratory of Cell Biology, NCI
1:40 pm		Current Concepts and Future Directions in Virtual Colonoscopy Computer-Aided Detection   Ronald Summers, Image Processing Group, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, CC
2:10 pm		Improving Statistical Significance Assignment in Mass Spectrometry Based Peptide Identification   Yi-Kuo Yu, Quantitative Molecular Biological Physics, NCBI, NLM
2:40 pm		PubChem: An Open Repository for Chemical Structure and Biological Activity Information   Steve Bryant, Computational Biology Branch, NCBI, NLM