Gustavo Caetano-Anolles
How function shapes dynamics in evolution of protein molecules
(bami)May 2017 - Aug 2018
Evolutionary dynamics of the protein structure-function relation and the origin of the genetic code
(baaj)Nov 2015 - Dec 2016
The Dynamics of Protein Disorder and its Evolution
(joy)Nov 2014 - Oct 2015
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Fizza Mughal: How Function Shapes Dynamics in Evolution of Proteins
Blue Waters Symposium 2017, May 18, 2017
Fizza Mughal: Evolutionary Dynamics of the Protein Structure-Function Relation in Metabolic Networks
Blue Waters Symposium 2016, Jun 14, 2016
Gustavo Caetano-Anollés: Mining the evolutionary dynamics of protein loop structure and its role in biological functions
Blue Waters Symposium 2015, May 12, 2015
NCSA Grants $2.6M in Blue Waters Awards to Illinois Researchers
Jul 6, 2017
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has awarded 3,697,000 node hours (NH) of time on the Blue Waters supercomputer to Illinois researchers from Spring 2017 proposal submissions. The combined value of these awards is over $2.6 million dollars, and through the life of the Blue Waters program, NCSA has awarded over 43 million node hours to UI researchers—a value of nearly $27 million. Some of the time allocated for Blue Waters will go to projects that focus on HIV research, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) simulations, genomics and global warming research.
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Caetano-Anollés' study sheds light on origins of life on Earth
May 17, 2017
In the primordial soup that was early Earth, life started small. Elements joined to form the simple carbon-based molecules that were the precursors of everything that was to come. But there is debate about the next step. One popular hypothesis suggests that ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules, which contain the genetic blueprints for proteins and can perform simple chemical reactions, kick-started life. Some scientists refute this idea, however, saying RNA is too large and complex a molecule to have started it all. That group says simpler molecules had to evolve the ability to perform metabolic functions before macromolecules such as RNA could be built. This idea is appropriately named "metabolism-first," and new evidence out of the University of Illinois backs it up.
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18 general, 9 exploratory allocations on Blue Waters awarded to Illinois researchers
Nov 24, 2014
Eighteen researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign received allocations on the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). A portion of available time on Blue Waters is reserved for University faculty and staff projects like these that require the system’s unique capabilities. Ten of the awards will continue projects already running on Blue Waters, related to a wide variety of topics like tornadoes, steel casting, and cell function, among others. Eight allocations are for new projects.
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22 Illinois projects receive time on Blue Waters
Jun 11, 2013
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has awarded access to the Blue Waters supercomputer—which is capable of performing quadrillions of calculations every second and of working with quadrillions of bytes of data—to 22 campus research teams from a wide range of disciplines. The computing and data capabilities of Blue Waters, which is operated by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), will assist researchers in their work on understanding DNA, developing biofuels, simulating climate, and more.
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