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Julien Gagneur Receives Gauss AI Compute Grant for Genomics Research
The CRESCENDO Project Will Leverage the JUPITER Exascale Supercomputer to Advance AI-Driven Research on Cell States and Regulatory DNA Sequences Across the Tree of Life.
We are pleased to announce that MCML PI Julien Gagneur has been selected as a winner of the Gauss AI Compute Competition for his project CRESCENDO – Cell State and Regulatory Sequence Encoding Across All Tree-of-Life Domains. The award provides access to the JUPITER exascale supercomputer to accelerate cutting-edge AI research.
The CRESCENDO project aims to advance the understanding of cell states and regulatory DNA sequences across diverse organisms by combining artificial intelligence with large-scale genomics. The Gauss AI Compute Grant will enable the computational resources needed to tackle these ambitious scientific challenges.
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