The Barcelona Supercomputing Center  (BSC) is a public research centre created in 2005 and devoted to enhancing research in many different fields by providing HPC resources to different communities, and by directly generating knowledge in different areas, such as computing, earth, life sciences and Computer Applications in Science and Engineering. It hosts the MareNostrum 4, one of the PRACE (European supercomputing infrastructure) supercomputers. BSC has over 600 staff members from more than 47 countries engaged in multidisciplinary scientific collaboration and innovation. BSC was selected in June 2019 by EuroHPC as one of the three institutions to host a pre-exascale supercomputer in the high-capacity supercomputer network that will operate in the EU by 2021.

Life Science Department. The Life Sciences Department composed by 6 research groups and 5 technical units works on various aspects of computational biology, ranging from bioinformatics for genomics to computational biochemistry and Natural Language Processing. The Electronic and Atomic Protein Modeling (EAPM) group is part of the Life Sciences Department. Its research lines focus on developing new methodologies, at the bioinformatics, molecular modeling and machine learning level of theory, addressing functional proteomics, specifically in mapping the biophysics of protein-ligand association and the biochemistry in enzyme catalysis. Emphasis is also placed in the application of such methods on protein-substrate interactions and enzyme engineering, and in the development of machine learning novel algorithms.