Balancing Breadth and Depth
The last decade saw a proliferation of training programs at the intersection of life science and computation, with more than 60 new degree and certificate programs launched in the United States alone...
Sep, 01, 2005
For major team-based Roadmap initiatives, National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials expect grantees to look beyond the focus of their individual projects to build bridges not only among funded...
Oct, 01, 2008
Simbody introduces the concept of a “mobilizer,” which directly expresses a part’s movement, however complex, purely in relation to another part
Typically, researchers who simulate life in motion—from particles to people—start by describing the motion of each part of an object independently of the other parts. Additional equations...
Jan, 01, 2008
In March, Simbios released version 1.0 of the SimTK Simulation toolkit. A cornerstone of this release is Simbody, a new piece of the open-source SimTK Core toolkit for physics-based simulation....
Apr, 01, 2008
The clear winner: Big Data
Several biomedical computing projects received big money in the fall of 2012. If there’s one clear winner, it’s “Big Data”: three of the grants focus on building new...
Feb, 19, 2013
MICCAI 2007, the 10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention.
What: MICCAI typically attracts over 600 world leading scientists, engineers and...
Oct, 01, 2007
It’s impossible to predict what the hottest new tools will be, but here are a few gems that caught our attention
Many experimental researchers rely on computational tools to push the pace and productivity of laboratory research. It’s impossible to predict what the hottest new tools will be, but this...
Apr, 01, 2011
They're more than just pretty pictures adorning office walls and presentation slides. Beamed into operating room computer monitors, they're guiding the scalpels of brain surgeons. Dancing...
Jan, 01, 2012
Upcoming biocomputing conferences
The 6th Annual International Conference on Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB2007) coordinated by the Life Sciences Society.
WHAT: This conference is designed for any scientist interested in...
Jul, 01, 2007
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic and IBM have each built computer pipelines for extracting useful information from unstructured notes in patient charts, such as physician’s notes and pathology...
Jul, 01, 2009
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