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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI - News) and SCICOR, an authorized SGI Solution Provider, today announced that the National Cancer Institute's Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC) in Frederick, Md., has purchased from SCICOR a broad range of SGI® high-performance computing, visualization, and data storage solutions to help solve some of the most demanding biological research problems, including bioinformatics, proteomics, imaging, and computational biology and chemistry.

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On the software visualization front, ABCC uses MineSet(TM) to perform genome sequence comparisons. Introduced by SGI in 1999, MineSet is a suite of powerful yet easy-to-use software tools for Visual Data Mining and Data Visualization. It distils complex information into accessible and easily understood interactive 3D real-time graphics to help users quickly identify trends and patterns in their data. Purple Insight has licensed development, support and distribution rights for MineSet from SGI.

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