Computational Biology: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, September 17, 1996 |
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Page 59 - Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the World Wildlife Fund, the John D.
Page 49 - Center for Light Microscope Imaging and Biotechnology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Dr.
Page 19 - In other words, how are we going to do that? How are we going to do that very thing that comes to my mind in eastern Colorado ? Mr.
Page 38 - NIH, as well as the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, and the US Department of Defense.
Page 36 - ... how to submit nominations. By this means I will be able to consider carefully a wide spectrum of nominations and assure appropriate representation suited to the needs of this committee. One commentator suggested that representatives from Federal agencies serve on the RAC. Several agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Agriculture, have liaison representatives who come regularly to the RAC meetings and, of course, the Federal Interagency...
Page 49 - Center for Engineering Plants for Resistance Against Pathogens, University of California, Davis, CA Dr.
Page 41 - Because of its experience in creating and maintaining biomédical databases and because it is part of NIH, NLM was chosen because it could establish an intramural research program in computational molecular biology; the collective research components of NIH make up the largest biomédical research...
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Page 44 - ... whose solution could be advanced by applying high performance computing techniques and resources.
Page 41 - ... perform research into advanced methods of computer-based information processing for analyzing the structure and function of biologically important molecules and compounds...