Robert Esnouf
WHG Head of Research Computing Core and BDI Director of Research Computing
With a career in computational structural biology that was becoming increasingly technical and administrative, in 2009 I changed role from STRUBI to create a "Research Computing Core" for the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics to coordinate the growth in computational demands for modern, data-driven biology. The Core grew rapidly after 2012, and in 2017 we joined efforts with the newly opened Big Data Institute (BDI) with the vision of providing a unified Biomedical Research Computing (BMRC) platform across both departments as well as to collaborators from around Oxford. BMRC is now the pre-eminent facility in the University for data-driven, high-memory, high-performance computing closing in on 10,000 CPU cores, 120 GPU cards and a total of nearly 20PB data storage.
As always, however, the goal is to provide researchers with a simple-to-use, scalable platform for collaborative research. We welcome all WHG researchers to use our systems whatever their computing background and skill levels.
Recent publications
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Structure-based energetics of protein interfaces guides foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccine design
Kotecha A. et al, (2015), Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 22, 788 - 794
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Evaluation and Use of In-Silico Structure-Based Epitope Prediction with Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus
Borley DW. et al, (2013), PLoS ONE, 8, e61122 - e61122
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Nearest-cell: a fast and easy tool for locating crystal matches in the PDB
Ramraj V. et al, (2012), Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, 68, 1697 - 1700
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Recording information on protein complexes in an information management system
Savitsky M. et al, (2011), Journal of Structural Biology, 175, 224 - 229
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Recording information on protein complexes in an information management system
Savitsky M. et al, (2011), Journal of Structural Biology, 175, 224 - 229