A researcher from The Australian National University has modelled the activity of six common pharmaceutical drugs used in pain relief, anaesthetics and epilepsy treatments using the NCI supercomputer. Supercomputer modelling allows Dr Amanda Buyan to understand the interaction between the drugs and...

When genes and proteins inside a cell are damaged, it can result in diseases such as cancers, diabetes and obesity. Understanding exactly how this damage affects DNA is key to understanding and developing early and effective treatments, and raises the chances of a treatment succeeding. Epigenetics...

Inside every atom in the universe, forces are pushing and pulling to keep the atom's fundamental building blocks stuck together, interacting to preserve a delicate energy balance that enables stars to form and life to exist. Right now, we only have an inkling of how those forces work, but that is...

NCI's partnership with the Bureau of Meteorology continues to lead to improvements to Australia's national weather prediction models. Visualisations of the data output from the recently enhanced development version of the capital city forecast model make it easy for collaborating scientists to...

One of NCI's expert staff has helped to make a significant new discovery about the way molecules can take shape. This method through which molecules arrange their atoms and change shape promises to enable amazing new chemistry in the future, including for microelectronics, drug design and new...

Researchers from the new ARC Centre of Excellence in Climate Extremes are leveraging NCI's huge supercomputing power to perform world-leading ocean simulations. They are using more than 500 computer-processing cores in parallel over thousands of hours to investigate fine-scale turbulence and...

Researchers are using new gene sequencing technology alongside high-performance computing at NCI to understand the genetics of one of the world's most devastating plant diseases: wheat stripe rust. Wheat stripe rust is caused by a fungus that affects the leaves of wheat plants, affecting the plants'...

Researchers from The Australian National University, along with international colleagues, have used a combination of ocean modelling and genetic data to transform our understanding of Antarctica's ecological isolation and ocean drift. The researchers used DNA samples from kelp washed up on Antarctic...

Researchers from the Geospatial Analysis for Environmental Change Lab at the University of New South Wales have previously used satellite image time series data and NCI's supercomputer to calculate 26 years of water availability across the Murray-Darling Basin (published here by Tulbure, Broich et...