University of Florida’s B.J. Fregly hopes to use OpenSim to simulate the knee.
from http://biomedicalcomputationreview.org/content/simbios-bringing-biomedical-simulation-your-fingertips
B.J. Fregly, PhD, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and of...
Oct, 01, 2009
Computing airflow dynamics
We can’t see them, but tiny particles—dust, pollen, microbes, and the like—swirl around us in complicated, turbulent pathways. New numerical simulations suggest that, at least in...
Jun, 01, 2010
Advances in visualization changing work flows for understanding molecular dynamics, tracking cell movements, and designing interventional procedures
The pathway from raw data to valuable visualization of molecules, cells or organs being simulated over time involves several potentially painstaking steps. Typically, researchers must generate a set...
Sep, 02, 2011
Computers and human experts duke it out over who is better at diagnosing disease, interpreting images, or predicting protein structure
Dorothy Rosenthal tenses over her microscope, peering at the problematic nucleus on the Pap smear yet again. “It’s abnormal,” she decides, and then hesitates. “No, it’s...
Jul, 01, 2006
Using natural language processing to find necessary samples
To discover links between genes and disease, researchers typically recruit individual patients with and without the disease of interest; have them sign consent forms; take their medical histories;...
Jan, 01, 2010
Multi-scale modeling is now at what might be called its gestational stage
For centuries, mathematics has been an indispensable ally of the physical sciences and engineering. Planes fly and telephones work because engineers know how to simplify physical systems into...
Apr, 01, 2006
Looking inside the cell without opening it
When light hits an obstacle, its scattering pattern reveals information regarding the internal structure of the obstacle. If that obstacle is a cell, the scattering pattern might indicate whether the...
Jun, 01, 2005
Like humans, cells are affected by their physical environment, their neighbors, the context in which they exist. Much research has focused on the chemical signals that control cell behavior. But...
Sep, 01, 2011
Synthetic biologists explain cell behaviors while desinging new ones
Without synchronized clocks—whether embedded in our body’s cells or programmed into our desktop computers—any kind of coordinated activity is impossible. So after synthetic...
Apr, 01, 2010
A unique opportunity to build both flexibility and high performance into a piece of software.
OpenCL is a cross-platform language for doing general purpose computation on graphics processing units (GPUs) and other massively parallel architectures. One of its most interesting features is the...
Apr, 01, 2010