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Basmati rice before harvest. Computational biologists are studying rice to create better strains.
Basmati rice before harvest. Billions of people around the world depend on rice as a major part of their diet. By using the World Community Grid, a distributed computing network managed by IBM, computational biologists at the University of Washington are using the combined power of more than 1 million computers to better understand the protein structures of rice plants. The Nutritious Rice for the World project hopes these insights will lead to more nutritious stains of rice that can be grown in more parts of the world, providing more people with this vital staple crop.
Credit: Courtesy of the International Rice Research Institute
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