<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2022-10-how-msu-is-working-to-future-proof-chemical-discovery.aspx" dsn="blogs"><homehero>true</homehero><unit>Biochemistry,Chemistry,College of Natural Science</unit><pubDate>10/27/2022</pubDate><title>How MSU is working to future-proof chemical discovery </title><description><p>A Spartan-led collaboration, headed by MSU chemist Kenneth Merz, is modernizing software and computational methods for next-gen hardware to help accelerate drug discovery, materials development and more. The team is working to ensure a powerful software tool known as Amber is optimized for the high-performance computers of today and tomorrow. </p></description><author>Val Osowski</author><hero-image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2022/2022-10-how-msu-is-working-to-future-proof-chemical-discovery.banner.jpg" alt="A Spartan-led collaboration, headed by MSU chemist Kenneth Merz, is modernizing software and computational methods for next-gen hardware to help accelerate drug discovery, materials development and more. The team is working to ensure a powerful software tool known as Amber is optimized for the high-performance computers of today and tomorrow. Credit: The Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research and Şölen Ekesan/The York Lab/Rutgers University "/></hero-image><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2022/preview.2022-10-how-msu-is-working-to-future-proof-chemical-discovery.banner.jpg" alt="A Spartan-led collaboration, headed by MSU chemist Kenneth Merz, is modernizing software and computational methods for next-gen hardware to help accelerate drug discovery, materials development and more. The team is working to ensure a powerful software tool known as Amber is optimized for the high-performance computers of today and tomorrow.  "/></image><tags><tag>Amber software</tag><tag>computational chemistry</tag><tag>faculty</tag><tag>research</tag></tags></item>