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Orozco: "Simulation is transforming our perception of human beings"

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The supplement "El Cultural" of the newspaper "El Mundo" publishes an interview with researcher Modesto Orozco about supercomputation and the capacity to simulate biological processes. Orozco goes over some of the projects that his "Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics" lab is working on, such as "Nostrum Drug Discovery", which is funded by the Botín Foundation, and the European flagship the "Human Brain Project."

Read the interview in El Mundo - El Cultural (PDF in Spanish)

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