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Douglas Baxter

Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Projects

Massive Contingency Analysis with High Performance Computing

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Yousu Chen
Project type
Limited Scope
The objective of this proposal is to implement and evaluate new load balancing scheme for performing massive contingency analysis of power grid with high performance computing, to better understand…

NWBio

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Scott Baker
The goal of "NWBio" project is to leverage computational chemistry and physics methods to develop a new generation of predictive modeling and simulation tools for biology. This project…

Bioinformatics Tools to Define the Proteomic State of the Cell

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
William Cannon
Project type
Capability Research
During the next three years we intend to enhance mass spectrometry-based proteomic analysis by building a new generation of tools for peptide identification. The accurate identification of protein…

High performance sequence analysis for data-intensive bioinformatics

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Christopher Oehmen
Project type
Grand Challenge
Volume of sequence data available through public repositories are growing almost exponentially in time. Currently, the nonredundant protein database doubles in size approximately every 2 years. At…

Scaling up for large metagenomic computations with ScalaBLAST

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Christopher Oehmen
Project type
Capability Research
The recent emphasis on understanding genomes at the level of whole organisms from the U.S. Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, and other major agencies has driven a worldwide effort…

The Aerosol Modeling Testbed

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jerome Fast
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
An Aerosol Modeling Testbed will be developed that will simplify and greatly increase the efficiency of evaluating new aerosol treatments for regional and global climate models. The Aerosol Modeling…

Advanced Biomolecular Simulations - Development and Applications

Lead Institution
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
T. Straatsma
Project type
Capability Research
This project focuses on two important components of biomolecular modeling and simulation: i) the development of novel molecular modeling capabilities and their efficient parallel implementations, and…

Developing an Initial Framework for a Regional Earth System Model

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Lai-Yung Ruby Leung
Project type
Exploratory Research
Predicting climate change at the regional scale is critically important for assessing climate change impacts and developing strategies for mitigation and adaptation. Regional climate models (RCMs)…

Optimization of peptide identification from tandem mass spectral data

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
William Cannon
Project type
Exploratory Research
Determining the correct sequence of amino acids for a peptide starting with MS/MS spectral data can be stated as an optimization problem where the objective is to match an experimental spectrum with…