Applications of parallel processors in molecular biology

Molecular biology analyses the molecular basis of living systems. The chemical complexity of biological systems of importance (e.g. enzyme action, organelle assembly, membrane transport, antigen-antibody reactions, cell recognition and many others) is at the extreme end of the range to which many physical methods of analysis can be applied. Developments will follow progress in the physical sciences, which in turn depends extensively on high performance computer modelling and investigation. The author discusses two major areas of computer applications in molecular biology, which exploit massively parallel computing systems