Blue Gene could simulate heating a protein, to see how stable it is, or could apply random mutations to a protein, to see how its ability to fold is affected.

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Sasha turned her face into the blue couch because her cheeks were heating up and she hated that.

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As you can see in that lead shot up there, the screen intuitively shows the temperature in red when it's heating up, and turns blue when it's cooling.

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It sells them directly to a local steel fabricator, Blue Star Steel, which uses them to stamp out small brackets for heating and air conditioning equipment for other industries, skipping the foundry altogether.

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