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A team of four boys from Eldorado High School in Albuquerque have won this year's Adventures in Supercomputer Challenge. Schools all over New Mexico participate in the yearlong competition to design projects making the best use of a supercomputer. The contest ended with the competition yesterday in Los Alamos. The Eldorado team's project was titled, "Atomistic Modeling of Biomolecular Interactions." The team created a computer model of proteins in human cells. The project one day could help doctors design and test drugs and their effects on patients in virtual reality, rather than actual human tests. The team says it also could help nanotechnology scientists design machines smaller than a blood cell.