«This study illustrates
the power of a multidisciplinary team, involving clinicians, geneticists and basic immunologists, to get to the heart of a medical mystery,» said Dan Kastner, M.D., Ph.D., scientific director of the Intramural Research Program at NHGRI and a co-author of the study.
By using supercomputers such as Titan, a large
multidisciplinary team of scientists led by Peter Thornton
of the US Department
of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) had the
power required to integrate massive codes that combine physical and biological processes in Earth system with feedbacks from human activity.