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IBM and MIT power research into microbiome

24-Aug-2017

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Will study the connection between body bacteria and autoimmune diseases.

Using supercomputing power crowdsourced via IBM’s World Community Grid.

Virtual experiments will map the 3 million bacterial genes found in the human microbiome and predict the structure of their associated proteins.

Volunteers can provide compute power by downloading a secure software program to run virtual experiments.

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Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Collaborative organization that brings academics of various disciplines in the scientific community together

Flatiron Institute

Research institute in New York City, New York.

International Business Machines (IBM)

A global technology company

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

Largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School located in Boston

Ramnik Xavier

Core institute member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

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