Facilities
An introductory short list of our members’ facilities, centers and programs associated with specific research areas is given below. Please see Members section for complete listings
Bioinformatics and Super Computing
Blueprint Initiative (Mount Sinai Hospital). The Blueprint Initiative is a bioinformatics research laboratory and part of the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute. New academic research directions are being undertaken. These include: the temporal ordering of events encoded in biological sequences, Monte-carlo models of folded to unfolded chromatin and the emergence of transcriptional foci in the nucleus, throughput issues in HPC applied to computational cellular simulations, and the central problem of protein folding scoring functions.
The Centre for Computational Biology (Hospital for Sick Children). The centre provides state-of -the-art computing facilities, applications and databases, including an SGI 3800 supercomputer.
Molecular Design and Information Technology Facility (University of Toronto). A high-tech supercomputing facility that forms the heart of a new drug discovery and development program - an International hub for research and development. Scientists are able to interact in real time with three-dimensional molecular models in a theater environment using an SGI? Reality Center? display.
Ontario Centre for Genomic Computing (Hospital for Sick Children). The Ontario Centre for Genomic Computing enables cutting-edge research in Genomics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology by providing high-performance computing access, up-to-date biological datasets and applications, and consultative expertise to academic and private-sector researchers in Ontario and beyond.