"Fold-It" players find best protein conformations to fight cancer
When it comes to folding proteins, even modern supercomputers don’t always get things exactly right. Enter FoldIt, an online video game that harnesses the human brain’s natural pattern-...
Jan, 01, 2010
Biomechanical models contribute to a better understanding of both the normal and the diseased eye.
Squint, and you can almost make out that bird soaring over the horizon. But determining whether it’s a hawk or a raven will be nearly impossible for someone with myopia, also known as...
Feb, 19, 2013
The edict that academics must “publish or perish” serves not merely to advance careers, but also to stress the importance of transmitting knowledge from scientist to scientist and...
Jan, 01, 2006
A new application automates MSM visualization
An unfolded protein can move through thousands of intermediate structures (conformations) before finding its properly folded state. One approach to understanding this process involves simulating a...
Feb, 19, 2013
Transparent peer review, replication studies, and journals of negative results all suggest change is on the horizon
As I was writing this editorial, I learned about yet another scientific paper being retracted. This time it was a genetics paper in Science, one of the hundreds of retractions that the blog...
Sep, 01, 2011
Algorithm joins related publications in a chain from start to finish
A good story ties up all the loose ends. A new data-mining tool takes a stab at doing the same. Dubbed storytelling, the algorithm may make it easier to unearth unexpected connections in the...
Jan, 01, 2007
Recent Publications About Biomedical Computing
The field of biomedical computation is increasingly seen as a hot topic worthy of coverage in publications other than Biomedical Computation Review.
In June 2005, The Scientist will publish a...
Jun, 01, 2005
Set objectives and follow through
Having engineered several scientific software applications for public consumption, the authors know from experience that the process offers unique challenges. Typically, the algorithms being...
Oct, 22, 2012
Janelia farmers pursue novel, cross-disciplinary collaborations to work on long-term, unwieldy scientific problems difficult to tackle in a single laboratory
The folks at Howard Hughes Medical Institute who dreamed up Janelia Farm say it is as much a social innovation as a scientific one. “We are creating a different culture here,” says Gerald...
Jul, 01, 2006
Dear Reader:
Welcome to the first issue of Biomedical Computation Review. With this quarterly publication, we hope to inspire and bring together scientists from the many fields that touch on...
Jun, 01, 2005
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