Application Health Monitoring for Extreme-scale Resiliency using Cooperative Fault Management.

Resiliency is and will be a critical factor in determining scientific productivity on current and supercomputers, and beyond. Applications oblivious to and incapable of handling transient soft and hard errors could waste supercomputing resources or, worse, yield misleading scientific insights. We introduce a novel application-driven silent error detection and recovery strategy based on application health monitoring.

An SVM-based algorithm for identification of photosynthesis-specific genome features.

This paper presents a novel algorithm for identification and functional characterization of "key" genome features responsible for a particular biochemical process of interest. The central idea is that individual genome features are identified as "key" features if the discrimination accuracy between two classes of genomes with respect to a given biochemical process is sufficiently affected by the inclusion or exclusion of these features. In this paper, genome features are defined by high-resolution gene functions.

An evolution-based analysis scheme to identify CO2/O2 specificity-determining factors for ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase.

Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCo) catalyzes a rate-limiting step in photosynthetic carbon assimilation (reacting with CO2) and its competitive photo-respiratory carbon oxidation (reacting with O2). RuBisCo enzyme with an enhanced CO2/O2 specificity would boost the ability to make great progress in agricultural production and environmental management. RuBisCos in marine non-green algae, resulting from an earlier endo-symbiotic event, diverge greatly from those in green plants and cyanobacteria and, further, have the highest CO2/O2 specificity whereas RuBisCos in cyanobacteria have the lowest.

In silico discovery of enzyme-substrate specificity-determining residue clusters.

The binding between an enzyme and its substrate is highly specific, despite the fact that many different enzymes show significant sequence and structure similarity. There must be, then, substrate specificity-determining residues that enable different enzymes to recognize their unique substrates. We reason that a coordinated, not independent, action of both conserved and non-conserved residues determine enzymatic activity and specificity.

Protein dynamics and enzymatic catalysis: investigating the peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerization activity of cyclophilin A.

A growing body of evidence suggests a connection between protein dynamics and enzymatic catalysis. In this paper, we present a variety of computational studies designed to investigate the role of protein dynamics in the detailed mechanism of peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerization catalyzed by human cyclophilin A. The results identify a network of protein vibrations, extending from surface regions of the enzyme to the active site and coupled to substrate turnover.

Carbon sequestration in Synechococcus Sp.: from molecular machines to hierarchical modeling.

The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced the first five grants for the Genomes to Life (GTL) Program.