As they learn more about how to use these machines, they will continue adding to the cluster. It is one of the key areas in the present data explosion in biology brought about by the genome projects and the new developments in functional genomics and proteomics. The Human Genome Project, an international project to identify all the genes of the human body, is one of the prime examples of this combination of technology and biology. The existence of the human genetic map will lay the foundation for a revolution in medical diagnosis and treatment. Bioinformatics research and methods development are currently expanding rapidly in Sweden.
Researchers can analyze and make predictions about protein structure from the amino acid sequence.
These kinds of predictions can aid in areas like drug design for pharmaceutical development. The analysis and comparison of whole-genome data is a very important aspect of such studies. Molecular evolution looks at how proteins have evolved and how organisms are related to each other. Using the PC cluster, scientists have opportunities for data-mining protein family databases and DNA sequence databases, among others. There are masses of these kinds of data, and this type of research has many implications.