I.B.M.'s five-year, $100 million Blue Gene project, begun in late 1999, is pursuing one of life's basic biological mysteries: how amino acids fold into proteins.
Last year, praising the Cooking Gene Project for combining history, genealogy, politics and economics, the TED organization chose Twitty as one of its Class of 2016 international fellows.
Its Blue Gene project is intended to produce a computer that can solve the protein-folding problem.
In this paper we describe the context, architecture, and challenges of Blue Matter, the application framework being developed in conjunction with the science effort within IBM's Blue Gene project.
IBM is one company that has a long history of pursuing grand challenges, such as the Deep Blue project, which defeated former world champion Garry Kasparov at chess, and the Blue Gene project, which created a new class of "massively parallel" supercomputers.
Since launching the Cooking Gene Project and its concomitant Southern Discomfort Tour in 2011, Twitty has crisscrossed the South from Maryland to Texas and back again, visiting dozens of restored plantations where he has cooked and lectured, immersed himself in old records and met with other culinary professionals, black, white and Native American.
I arranged a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship to work on the nif gene project.
We offer special thanks to John Colbourne and Joseph Shaw for their help in gaining access to the Daphnia data base and Michael B. O'Connor and James T. Warren for their continued collaboration on the Halloween gene project.
A number of different species are being tested for the spider-gene project.
