published on Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Minister Van der Hoeven visits Science park Amsterdam and SARA

On Tuesday, January 21, Mrs M.J.A. van der Hoeven, Minister of Education, Culture and Science, has paid a working visit to Science park Amsterdam (formerly Science and Technology Center Watergraafsmeer – WTCW).

During this visit, Minister Van der Hoeven has visited SARA Computing and Networking Services, and attended several demonstrations in the CAVE™ – SARA’s virtual reality facility.

In the CAVE, the following applications were demonstrated:

• a 3-D visualization of the protein molecule Thrombin that is responsible for the coagulation of blood – an Organon project;
  
• SARAGENE, a VR application for genome analysis SARA has developed in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development;
  
• a volume visualization of a MRI scan of a liver.

Mrs M.J.A. van der Hoeven during the presentation on SARA by SARA director dr. ir. A. Osseyran.

Genome datamining in the CAVE.

Volume visualization of a MRI scan of a liver.


Discussion afterwards in the CAVE.