AUGUST 3 - 4, 2000

The workshop aimed at creating awareness on the use of high performance computers among the biologists for their research. It incorporated a series of lectures on high performance computing applications in Bioinformatics. These covered a wide range of topics such as applications of supercomputers in Bioinformatics, introduction to parallel processing, use of genetic algorithms in multiple sequence alignment, molecular dynamics applications to DNA & protein structure, computer aided drug design, parallel AMBER & CHARMM, use of genetic algorithm and ant colony algorithm in structure optimization. The lecture sessions were followed by the demonstration of applications on C-DAC's latest state-of-the-art parallel supercomputer, PARAM 10000.

Experts from the relevant fields from universities, academic institutes and industry delivered talks in this high-tech area, besides the in-house scientists at C-DAC. Thirty participants attended the workshop. Selection of the participants was made on basis of a half-page write-up on how the workshop would benefit their research work.

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