At an NIH workshop, they discover how advanced computation can improve their vision of life processes |
"Anything I can do with a supercomputer, you can do with a pencil and paper," says Scott Berger, a neurobiologist at Cornell University Medical College. "But it would take many lifetimes to do it."
For John Gilbert, a biology graduate student at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, one supercomputer is worth a million calculations. Gilbert uses an X-ray microscope to study fibroblasts: thin, flat cells that develop into connective tissue. But even with this modern piece ...