Introduction

The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) has established the Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute (BHSAI) to serve as an interdisciplinary, tri-Service resource to develop high performance computing (HPC) applications to accelerate research and development of militarily relevant medical products for Force Health Protection. The BHSAI is part of the research arm of the USAMRMC's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC).

The Institute works together with Department of Defense life-scientists to develop and integrate HPC software applications into tools that form an integral part of their research program. The Institute strives to make access to HPC resources easy and transparent for the users by providing graphical user interfaces to run applications and modify input and code parameters. With the ability to model and simulate complex problems on computers, many potential solutions can be quickly evaluated - effectively reducing the dimensionality of the search space - to focus on a few hypotheses that can be experimentally tested.

Application areas:

  • Genomic & Proteomic Biomarkers
  • Computational Prediction of Protein Structures for Medical Countermeasures
  • Biomolecular Network Modeling & Simulation
  • Ad hoc Requirements for DoD-directed Medical Research

The goal of the Institute is to serve as a tri-Service, inter-disciplinary resource to accelerate R&D for Force Health Protection.

Software Available

These software systems can be installed on most Linux-based computer systems.

Software under Development
Systems Biology & Network Science

This is a Department of Defense (DoD) interest computer system. All DoD computer systems are subject to monitoring at all times to ensure proper functioning of equipment and systems, including security devices, to prevent unauthorized use and violations of statutes and security regulations, to deter criminal activity, and for other similar purposes. If monitoring of this or any other DoD computer system reveals possible evidence of violation of criminal statutes, this evidence and any other related information, including identification information about the user may be provided to law enforcement officials.

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