Communities of Interest

Computational Biology

Welcome to the Computational Biology Community of Interest

Join the Computational Biology Special Interest Group and explore the resources and solutions which Sun has to offer your university.

Technology Solutions for Computational Biology

Sun offers a scalable, reliable and secure backbone infrastructure for life sciences organizations to capture, organize and analyze vast amounts of data and to convert this data into information and knowledge useful for designing improved medical and agricultural products and processes. In addition to state-of-the-art hardware, Sun offers software, services, partners and programs to improve customer value.

Sun provides a full range of horizontal and vertical scaled servers, from high density Opteron, Xeon and Sparc based clusters, to high-end Sparc-based SMP servers with very large memory for both compute- and data-intensive applications, as well as all of the products needed to meet the needs of grid computing. Sun provides a complete software stack, from compilers and debuggers, through middleware, on to extensive data center administration functions, and productivity software. Sun has recently integrated all Customer Services into one organization to better serve our customers.

Sun also has an extensive set of partners in the computational biology/lifesciences/healthcare segment. Sun's Center of Excellence (COE) and Computational Biology Special Interest Group (CB-SIG) are two of the most extensive customer-focused programs in the industry, recognizing the importance of academic partnerships and community building to our customers.

 
Partnership Programs
Red arrow right  Centers of Excellence
Canadian Bioinformatics Resource (CBR)
Canada's NRC/CBR Named Sun COE in Distributed Bioinformatics
- NRC/CBR Trans-Canadian Network Additional Photos
 
Resources
Red arrow right  Presentations and White Papers
- Briefing in Computational Biology, version 2
- Infrastructure Technology for Life Sciences Computing
- Threaded Java Application: Protein Structure Prediction using Structure Fragment Libraries , Giri Chukkapalli, UCSD
- Building Your Own Bioinformatics Supercomputer for Cheap Using Grid Technology
- Whitepaper on Sun/U.Calgary/Fakespace CAVE
- Whitepaper: Computational Applications for Life Sciences on Sun Platforms: Performance Overview
 
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Red arrow right  Success Stories
- Blueprint Initiative - Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
- Oxford GlycoSciences, Plc
- The School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham
- PCASSO: Patient Centered Access to Secure Systems Online
- Perlegen Sciences, Inc.
- National Institute of Radiological Sciences
- Sun Success Story: Nanyang Technological University - Sun Microsystems Provides High Availability Platform for Vanguard Biomedical Database
- Newsletter: Campus Advisor Newsletter, Spring 2000 Expanding the Boundaries in Bioinformatics
Featured Articles include: Bioinformatics portal, Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, Protein Data Bank at San Diego Super Computer Center, National Center for Genome Resources, USA, Clustering at Sydney University, Stanford University and more.
- University of Calgary - A CAVE for Visual Genomics
- Stanford University: Advancing Computational Biology Databases with Sun Technology
 
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Red arrow right  Sun CB-SIG Newsletters
- June 30, 2005
- June 8, 2005
- May 23, 2005
- May 12, 2005
- April 29, 2005
 
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