Our group, the Research Computing Resource (RCR) concentrates on developing new computing resources for the research environment and solving problems in medical informatics and structural biology. We provide the Molecular Biology computing programs, databases and consultation services to the institution, to the General Clinical Research Center''s Informatics Core (which provides computing resources for clinical research) and to the members of the Cancer Center that subscribe to the RCR. We emphasize developing new computing tools, ranging from image display tools to client-server programming schemes for computer-intense programs. Past projects have include creating WWW access to the NYU database for the National Institutes of Health-Guide to Grants and Contracts and devising software for nightly updates for a local copy of NCBI''''s GenBank database, which is essential for the Molecular Biology community at the Medical Center.

With support received from the NSF we developed and maintain software for image processing widely used for electron and light micrographs. This software helps solve problems relative to three-dimensional reconstruction of plane-layer crystals and images from confocal laser-scanning microscopical studies of fluorescently labeled specimens.

In the area of Informatics, the group is active in developing educational materials in Cell Biology and Histology, in collaboration with members of the Educational Computing division of Academic Computing. One of our primary tasks is the development of databases to support clinical research projects.