Abstract
The use of high-performance computing (HPC) to understand the evolution, basic structure and function of proteins is discussed. HPC serves to solve a biological problem due to the massive parallel computation required to solve a particular problem or to algorithmic complexity. The process of folding a protein takes approximately 20 micoseconds to full one second. It is observed that HPC algorithms formulated for biomedical research would require tight integration of computation with database operations and queries.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 34-40 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Communications of the ACM |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2004 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Computer Science