iSGTW 09 April 2008

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Issue 69: iSGTW 09 April 2008

Wonderful wheats: automating the search for new genes

Providing vital food for billions of people, wheat cannot afford a sick-day off. It must resist new diseases, adapt to environmental change and flourish in the face of viruses, bacteria, insects and fungi.

Now, with the aid of grid-powered gene sequencing and selection, wheat must enter the 21st century.

Feature - Accessability

Never-born proteins: predicting protein structures from your web browser
The GENIUS grid portal, developed by an Italian collaboration, allows non-expert users to execute and monitor protein prediction jobs using a conventional web browser.

Opinion - Security

Five pillars for secure scientific computing
Should cybersecurity be reactive or proactive? Should it be both?

Christopher Griffin and Louis Wilder detail the many-pillared plan they believe is required for defence of our cybersecurity.

Link of the week

The world’s most powerful computer?
Luis Von Ahn is working with software powerful enough to build the Empire State Building in 6.8 hours, or the Panama canal in less than a day.

In this entertaining and fast-paced talk, Von Ahn shares his novel—and some say brilliant—approach to volunteer computing.