The National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC, in its Portuguese acronym), with its interdisciplinary character in scientific and technological research, brings together researchers with expertise in computer science, applied mathematics and computational modeling working on topics of high complexity that require creativity and technical capacity in its treatment. In addition, LNCC provides an infrastructure for high performance computing, with the objectives of advancing knowledge and meeting the demands of society and the Brazilian State.
The Santos Dumont (Sdumont) supercomputer, Latin America's largest capacity, is available to the scientific community in Brazil, coupled with a computer infrastructure focused on Big Data and Deep Learning, offers significant processing power needed for AI applications that require high computational demand. This infrastructure proved extremely efficient in artificial intelligence work in the area of molecular physics, considerably accelerating research, we were able to develop an artificial intelligence model capable of identifying immunogenic regions in protein sequences. The publication of this model was submitted in the article "Deepitope: a deep convolutional neural network for linear T-cell epitope prediction".
It is in this favorable environment that the LNCC Artificial Intelligence Center arises by adding a multi-disciplinary team for the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science (DS) techniques and methods applied to solving complex problems in various area.
Develop interdisciplinary capabilities for solving complex scientific and technological problems using artificial intelligence and data science in strategic areas of society and the Brazilian State.