Yicheng Tu (PI) has been awarded a 5-year R01 grant entitled "Database-centric Data Analysis for Molecular Simulations" under the administration of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This is a collaborative project between Tu's group in CSE and those of Dr. Sagar Pandit from the Department of Physics at USF and Dr. Xingquan (Hill) Zhu from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Florida Atlantic University. The total amount awarded is $875,262. The project addresses key data management challenges in performing molecular simulations, which is a major computational tool in studying the physical/chemical features of biological systems.