Faculty Interaction

Wen Jiang

Department of Biological Sciences
Purdue University

Brief Project Description:
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an emerging technique for structural determination of large macromolecular complexes and viruses. High performance computing resources are essential for processing of the large amount of image data required for high resolution 3-D reconstructions. David Braun of RCAC has been working with Prof. Jiang on processing the cryo-EM images on the RCAC's 4500 node Condor pool. Condor potentially provides teraflop scale computing power that remains by-and-large untapped by the cryo-EM research community.