e-Science for Cancer Prevention and Cure

Why do some people get cancer and others do not? Why do some people respond well to certain treatments whilst others do not? How can we improve cancer screening such as mammography to increase the rate of early cancer detection? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in the SeRC flagship project e-Science for Cancer Prevention and Cure (eCPC).

eCPC will apply eScience technologies to model cancer initiation and progression and to test...

Numerical Analysis

Development of numerical algorithms is critical in successful e-Science based research, often matching or outperforming improvements of hardware in terms of speed gains. The work in the numerical analysis group focus on algorithm development and analysis for multiscale, multiphysics and stochastic problems related to application fields like complex and multiphase flow, high frequency wave propagation and molecular dynamics.

FLOW

The intricate behaviour of flowing fluids in both nature and technical applications has fascinated scientists and laymen alike for centuries. Complex phenomena such as turbulence are ubiquitous in fluid flows, and studying them is of major relevance not only for industrial applications, but also, e.g., for a better understanding of the earth climate system. As such, turbulence has been described as “the last unsolved problem of classical physics”.

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Molecular Simulation

Semi-empiric simulation methods have been responsible for tremendous advances in chemistry, life science, and materials research. The possibility to accurately model finite temperature, time development, and very large systems has made these methods a cornerstone for biomolecular modelling and drug design, it has become possible to simulate complex processes such as protein folding on millisecond scale involving >100,000 atoms, and there is a large international effort (OpenKIM) to...

Bioinformatics

Life sciences have undergone an immense transformation during the recent years, where advances in genomics, proteomics and other high-throughput techniques produce floods of raw data that need to be stored, analysed and interpreted in various ways. Biology and medicine have become information sciences and new areas of comparative biology have opened. Bioinformatics is crucial by providing tools to efficiently utilise these gold mines of data in order to better...

Climate Modeling

Climate change is a research area at the forefront of public attention and with challenging problems. The tools used are climate models that describe the coupled land-atmosphere-ocean system, based on physical laws. Climate models are utilized to understand fundamental processes underlying climate change and variability and to project future changes. Scientists within the Bert Bolin Centre for Climate Research that involves scientist from SU, KTH and Rossby Centre at SMHI make extensive use...

Application Experts

SeRC has hired software engineers, typically consultants with a strong programming background. Together, they work closely with researchers in the e-Science communities (but directed by NSC/PDC) with the goal of enabling better use of the e-Science resources, e.g. advanced code optimization, parallelization, choice of architectures, etc. This kind of support will be even more important in the future with the wide-spread use of many-core architectures as well as accelerator technologies like...

Complex Diseases

The SeRC Complex Disease community aims at reducing mortality by contributing to individual risk assessment, early diagnosis, classification of diseases, as well as individual prognosis and treatment (personalized medicine). A critical aspect to achieve this is the ability to integrate and model multiple -omics data on all levels (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics) and combining this with clinical, environmental, and demographical data. Targeted areas are mainly cancer...

Visualization

The human visual sense is superior to today’s computers in terms of perceiving image content. Using the human visual system's high bandwidth supports rapid transfer of digital data representations to the user. It is this human capability that visualization builds upon, by generating images representing the content of large and complex data sets. In image science, the goal is to translate complex spatio-temporal patterns into forms that can be interpreted by humans. Thus,...

Distributed and Parallel Techniques

Future HPC application will require a much higher degree of parallelism. Many new solutions are expected to be provided from computer science including new programming languages, advanced features in compilers and runtime systems as well as new software development and performance monitoring tools.

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Upcoming events

2012-05-21

– 2012-05-21

SeRC Visualization Workshop

SeRC - Visualization Workshop
Visualization Challenges in eScience

The SeRC Visualization workshop will take place at the Norrkö...

2012-05-24

– 2012-05-24

SRA-meeting, May 24

Location: Grants Office, KTH

2012-05-30

– 2012-06-01

Mini-conference in complex disease analysis, Liège - Belgium 30 May - 1 June 2012

The second edition of Capita Selecta in Complex Disease Analysis takes place in Liège on 30-31 May, 1 June 2012. The focus of CSCDA2012 is on next generation...