Relative free binding energies of biological macromolecules, a faster leastsquares solver, and a 200-year reprieve in the &dquo;greenhousing&dquo; of the planet are some of the research results obtained this past year at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).
ages have observed that society often honors its living conformists and its dead innovators; ''but we prefer to honor living innovators,'' says Thomas Lengauer, professor of computational biology, director of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Saarbrü cken, Germany), and chair of the awards committee of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). The committee, composed of a group of current and past directors of ISCB along with previous award recipients, selects honorees for its two annual awards to innovative scientists. In 2007,
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