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Dr. Alex Buerkle 

"Traditionally people have thought about those problems, but all the advances people hope to make with respect to medical genetics and understanding how the genome affects health, those are huge computer problems and that's what I study. [The supercomputer] could allow us to do all kinds of calculations here that either now I do in my own lab or would have to go to national centers elsewhere."

Alex Buerkle on the NCAR supercomputer
Associate Professor of Evolutionary Genetics

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