Some day soon, you may use a search engine to locate every frame of home movie in which your Grandmother appears. Soldiers may be able to recognize buried bombs from a distance and doctors may detect early tumors automatically.

This prospect took a great leap forward recently when Rob Farber, senior scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), demonstrated the ability to create searchable databases based on image recognition with massive amounts of data rather than text tagging. The research on Ranger proved the potential of supercomputers to not only simulate virtual experiments, but also to organize, enrich, and improve our present, media-saturated world.
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Computational biochemist, Ioan Andricioaei, uses Ranger to explore the atomic-level dynamics of several systems with biomedical significance, including topoisomerase, an enzyme that helps DNA relax so it can replicate.

His research helps scientists explore fundamental cellular mechanisms that are vital to creating and optimizing future gene therapies and cancer treatments.
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