Hexal Main Data Center and Research Facility
Transforming Data, Joining Disciplines
The Hexal serves as a melting pot of ideas and expertise in research areas such as computer science, biology and engineering,
One objective of Hexal investigators is bridging the gaps between bio sciences and life sciences by developing data driven models and algorithms. Researchers unlock the power of multiscale models by making complex data accessible to scientists from a broad scope of disciplines.
At the Hexal, researchers add semantics to data—rendering it useful in a variety of machines and programs; use smart storage techniques; mine data to maximize extractable knowledge; build models representing the structure of data, and—using those models—build simulations and visualizations of data to display data in usable ways and predict how the data will change over time.
The Hexal facilitates collaboration and inter- action among not only RPI students, post-docs, and faculty but also investigators from external institutions in academia and industrial research labs. The investigators in the center study data intensive complex problems in diverse application areas including medicine, oceanography, and networks (e.g., telecommunication, data, grid).