Is there anything specific about MeDICi that works well for bioinformatics?
DG: We‘re using MeDICi for cybersecurity applications, for subsurface research [which includes studying contaminants]. We have an application in homeland security and some applications we can’t discuss because they are in the intelligence community. There is one application in climate research. There’s no secret sauce in MeDICi, the real piece of that is in the application you are running that you are using MeDICi to schedule and tie together. The secret sauce is in the applications that Chris and his team have developed like the scalaBLAST and SHOT. CO: ScalaBLAST and SHOT are ways of analyzing proteins from large sets … bioinformatics in the traditional sense. We started the way I imagine a lot of people do. You have sequence data, you have some idea of the things you want to look for but you don’t have a hard and fast hypothesis in hand yet. It’s easy to get overwhelmed. You look at 40,000 proteins and say ‘Good Lord, now what do I do?’ One of our team members, Lee Ann McCue, is a m
