News Archive

• Congratulations to Sara Calhoun who was awarded a Mary Gates Scholarship to work on docking and drug design this year! Congratulations are also in order for Michelle McCully who received an NDSEG Fellowship, a three-year graduate research award, from the Department of Defense.
• A Press Release from Microsoft highlighting the Daggett Group's application of the new SQL Server 2008 to their Dynameomics Database was picked up by The New York Times, Forbes, CNBC, and others.
• A Case Study was done by Microsoft in August of 2008 investigating the data management scheme the group has developed for the Dynameomics Database. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and OLAP are used to mine over 20 terabytes of simulation data which reside on three servers.
• Bioinform, one of GenomeWeb's Application-Focus Newsletters, featured the Daggett Group's research in an article by Vivien Marx in July of 2008.
• Microsoft featured the Group's integration of Windows software in a Case Study in June of 2008. High-performance computing clusters running Windows Compute Cluster Server are used to run the lab's molecular dynamics software with better performace than the optimized Linux version, and Microsoft SQL Server powers the 14-terabyte Dynameomics Database. The group's application of Microsoft's software was also featured in a Press Release.
• Bleeding Edge Biotech, a blog hosted by Carnegie Mellon computational biologist Adam Kraut, highlighted the Dynameomics Project in April of 2008.
• The Daggett Lab was awarded 10 million processor hours for 2008 on the Department of Energy's supercomputers! The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), located in Berkeley, CA, is one of the largest computing facilities in the world for basic scientific research.
• The Washington Research Foundation highlighted the Group's in house molecular dynamics software, in lucem molecular mechanics, in their 2007 Annual Report.
• The Daggett Group was named a UW Technology Gap Innovation Fund Recipient (see page 24) for 2007. This grant supports development of a graphical user interface and protein and drug design functionality for ilmm, the Group's in house molecular dynamics software.
• The Benjamin Hall Interdisciplinary Research Building, one of only 11 Gold-level green buildings in the US, is the new home of the Daggett Lab.
• The Daggett Group's work on prion protein was referenced in the September 2007 issue of Wellcome Trust's Big Pictures Series on Epidemics. [PDF]
• The work on prion protein was again cited in the August 2007 Issue of Chemical and Engineering News.
• The Dynameomics project and potential startup company was featured in the Biomedical Computation Review article "Biocomputation Startups: Where Does Value Lie?" by Katharine Miller. [PDF]
• The Department of Energy awarded the Daggett group 2 million processor hours in 2005 through an Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment Award (INCITE), one of 3 awards in the country, for the Molecular Dynameomics project. [DOE press release]
  • Update: The NERSC Annual Report feature, "Proteins in Motion," details the Daggett group's Dynameomics Project.
  • Update: The Department of Energy has awarded the Daggett group an additional 5 million processor hours at NERSC for 2006 and 2007!
• Now you can download Powerpoint slides of our prion conversion trajectory. If you want to know how your experimental data compare with our model or you want specific figures or analyses email us.
• The Dynameomics project was the subject of a recent article in The Scientist, "Unraveling Protein Folding" by Melissa Lee Phillips. [PDF]
• The Daggett Group's work on amyloid disease was the subject of recent editorials in Science by Orla Smith [PDF] and in Nature by Christopher Surridge. [PDF]