Driving Hypothesis Generation with HPC
Presentation Information
When: November 18, 2008, 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
and November 19, 2008, 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (encore presentation)
There's no doubt that high performance computing is driving a discovery revolution in biology. However, researchers need more than just computing throughput to gain new insight from data. Challenging problems like multiple whole-genome analysis and comparative genomics are complex enough that researchers don't always know exactly what the optimal hypothesis is. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Dr. Chris Oehmen will demonstrate how intuitive, browsable visual metaphors can enable iterative evaluation of a scientific hypothesis — and drive efficient multiprocessor execution of sequence analysis at multiple genome scales. (Video - Interactive HPC-driver visual analysis for multiple genome datasets)