Delaware Bioinformatics Institute and Beijing Genomics Institute to become Sun centers of excellencePalo Alto 01 August 2001 Sun has selected Delaware Bioinformatics Institute and Beijing Genomics Institute as Sun Centers of Excellence (COEs). Both sites were chosen for their expertise in computational biology and their potential to advance the field through research and partnerships with other institutions.
Sun chose Delaware Bioinformatics Institute (DBI) as a COE in high-performance
computational biology in recognition of the organization's advanced work on
protein structure and biological pathway simulations as well as computerized
detection of sequence repeats and SNPs, and whole genome comparisons. Using Sun
Fire 4800 servers, DBI will collaborate with Sun and its partners DuPont and
Thomas Jefferson University to create new databases and software for
computational biology.
Sun also chose the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), the leading genomics and
bioinformatics center in China, as a Center of Excellence based on its advanced
work in genomics, alternative splicing algorithms and proteomics. The BGI team
of over 500, with 200 bioinformatics specialists in Beijing and Hangzhou, will
use two Sun Enterprise 10000 supercomputers to study rice and porcine
genomes, among other projects.
Sun's COE program promotes open standards and collaboration to help build new
technologies that advance academic research. In addition to BGI and DBI, Sun has
already established COEs in computational biology with Virginia Bioinformatics
Institute and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
For more information on Sun's
computational biology programs, visit www.sun.com/edu/hpc.
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