News

Announcements:

• CIPRES Portal V 2.1 released
• New Tree of Life exhibit released at the Peabody Museum
• Crimson database released
• Thanks to all the brave souls who helped evaluate CIPRES-Kepler!
• New CIPRES Modeling Data released
• Data Analysis Challenges Arising from the DNA Barcode Initiative
• CIPRES acquires a powerful new computing cluster.
• CIPRES team describes parallel computing model for Multiple Instruction Multiple Data (MIMD) architecture; outperform best RECIDCM3 score to date.
• The SDSC National Resource is pleased to announce the addition of Ashton Taylor, an award winning artist/web designer to our staff. Ashton has serveral years experience as a web designer, and an impressive portfolio, including designs for the SDSC biology home page and the Next Generation Biology Workbench. He will replace our founding web designer, Dana Jermanis, who has moved on to pursue an MBA at Notre Dame. (2004-08-14)

Press Release:

NSF Funds Tree-of-Life ITR Project

UCSD Release:

Announced today, a large ITR grant, funded at $11.6 million, will create a "Tree of Life" that will allow researchers to explore the evolutionary relationships between all species of living organisms. The second, Virtual Grid Application Development Software (VGrADS), funded at $8.25 million, aims to simplify and accelerate the development of Grid applications and services, making the Grid more accessible to users. The first award to develop the "Tree of Life" will support an alliance of 13 institutions coordinated by Bernard Moret, Professor of Computer Science at University of New Mexico. SDSC's Director, Francine Berman, and SDSC's Director of Integrative Biosciences, Philip Bourne, will serve as co-PIs, and Program Coordinator Mark Miller will act as SDSC point of contact. The project is an alliance of 13 institutions to develop the "Tree of Life." "We are very excited about this opportunity," said Berman. "The Tree of Life team is a stellar group and the project uses data technologies to provide a foundation for new advances in the biosciences. The Tree of Life will provide an important building block for Cyberinfrastructure and complements the wide spectrum of technology-enabled bioscience activities at SDSC." The "Tree of Life" effort includes developing computational tools to explore the evolutionary relationships between all species of living organisms. Researchers will be able to use comparisons of DNA sequences to predict the relationships of existing plants and animals to their common ancestors. The result will be a map, long sought-after by biologists, that describes which species have close common ancestors and which have more distant relations. SDSC resources, including its new DataStar machine and the TeraGrid will be applied to the project.
(2004-05-14)

CIPRES is a Collaboration of the Following Institutions:
American Museum of Natural History, Florida State University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, Rice University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Texas A&M, University of Arizona, University of British Columbia, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at San Diego, University of Connecticut, University of Pennsylvania, Univ. of South Carolina, University of Texas at Austin, and Yale University. xhtml | css