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Location: 700 S. Euclid

Administratively, CMD was a division of the Institute for Biomedical Computing (IBC), under the joint responsibility of the Deans of the Schools of Engineering and Medicine. In 2000, after due deliberation, IBC was reorganized to include tenured faculty in three departments (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, and Genetics) as the Center for Computational Biology, to focus on the unique opportunities presented by sequencing of the human genome as well as the genomes of other species, including pathogens. The presence at Washington University of the Genome Center, that has had such a prominent role in sequencing the human genome, has provided a rich environment for genomics and bioinformatics (Profs. Brent, Eddy, Gish, States and Stormo).


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The beat of a different drum

Honoring time, computer greats consider evading time (http://mednews.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/727.html)

March 3, 2004 --
To meet design and cost changes, industry and government are considering clockless computing.
To meet design and cost changes, industry and government are considering clockless computing.
Computing royalty, including Ivan Sutherland, the father of computer graphics, and Wesley A. Clark, the designer of the world's first personal computer, will gather at a computing symposium Friday, March 26th, 2004, from 1:00-5:30 p.m. at Washington University in St. Louis's Whitaker Hall Auditorium. As part of the University's 150th anniversary of its founding, participants will honor time by contemplating how computing can evade time as the industry prepares to go clockless.



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Additional Information: In 2001, a series of renovations began in the CCB, to house the new faculty they were recruiting to complement and expand current strengths in computational biology. In the course of two years time, the entire building (formally called the Old Shriners Hospital complex) at 700 S. Euclid was overhauled and renovated, providing the facility with new state-of-the-art computer equipment with a brand new teaching lab. Currently, CCB houses five academic faculty (three with primary appointments in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and two with primary appointments in Biomedical Engineering). Other associated CCB faculty, from those departments as well as Genetics, are housed elsewhere due to wet lab requirements.

Equipped with new facilities and new faculty, the CCB continues to build on its international reputation in computational chemistry, drug design and bioinformatics by development of useful approaches in molecular design and application of computational biology to practical problems. New faculty with complementary expertise in computational biology are being recruited to CCB. In addition, internationally recognized computational chemistry software has resulted from the work of faculty and staff. These include the widely distributed TINKER package developed by the Jay Ponder group (distributed freely over the web,( http://dasher.wustl.edu/tinker/) the RACHEL™ package written by Dr. Chris Ho (Marshall group) and distributed by Tripos, Inc. and Prof. Nathan Baker's APBS program (Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Solver), which is also distributed freely over the web (http://agave.wustl.edu/apbs/).


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