Tackling Disease in Three Dimensions: Supercomputers Help Decode RNA Structure
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 - 11:22
in Biology & Nature
In collaboration with staff from the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, researchers at the National Cancer Institute have perfected a technique that accurately computes the 3-D structure of RNA sequences. This method, which relies on a computer program known as RS3D and supercomputer Mira gives researchers studying cancer and other diseases structural insights about associated RNAs that can be used to advance computer-assisted drug design and development.