he Parkville precinct of Melbourne, Australia, is quietly transforming itself into a leading, global life sciences district, but it needs to make some noise now and then. That is being accomplished this year as Melbourne’s former Royal Dental Hospital is razed to make room for the Parkville Comprehensive Cancer Centre (CCC), which the State Government of Victoria defines as “a world class integrated cancer research, education and treatment facility.”Meanwhile, some, but not as much, noise will be made moving IBM’s Blue Gene/P supercomputer into place at the University of Melbourne in Parkville. Researchers – lots of them – from IBM, the university and commercial parties will use the supercomputer to study human disease. The arrangement, according to IBM, “will enable collaboration between the 10,000 world-class life sciences and medical researchers in the Melbourne area, and IBM’s computational biology experts, who are renowned for applying high performance computing to biological discoveries.” Scientists from the Victorian Life Sciences Computational Initiative at the university and IBM Research will work on projects in four biomedical areas: medical imaging and neuroscience, clinical genomics, structural biology and integrated systems biology.
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Author: MARK AREND
