Atomistic simulations have the potential to elucidate the molecular basis of biological processes such as protein misfolding in Alzheimer’s disease or the conformational changes that drive...
Jan, 01, 2010
There are numerous musculoskeletal modeling methods available to make predictions of muscle and joint contact forces. While such predictions can help improve treatments for movement-related disorders...
Jan, 02, 2012
Assuring accuracy and efficiency
In simulations of human activities such as running, hundreds of individual musculotendon models turn on and off to swing the arms and legs. Naturally, these simulations can only be as accurate and...
Jun, 19, 2013
Speedups produced by a C++ library of Clustering Algorithms for Massively Parallel Architectures Including GPU Nodes
GenBank, a repository for storing biological sequences, currently contains some 124 billion base pairs and is doubling in size every 18 months.1 Though not a huge number compared to the billion...
Apr, 01, 2011
How Simbios' state-of-the-art software tools are contributing to high-impact biomedical research
Simbios began with a simple idea: that physics-based simulation of biological structures at all scales could benefit from a
unified tool-building effort.
At the same time, the thinking went,...
Oct, 01, 2009
New release improves both GUI and API
OpenSim, the neuromuscular modeling and simulation software, is now available in a new digit: 3.0. The change (up from 2.4) reflects significant improvements that make this open source tool more...
Oct, 19, 2012
Alain Laederach of the Wadsworth Center counts on Simtk.org as a long term software and data repository and says Simbios’ dissemination efforts will pay off.
from http://biomedicalcomputationreview.org/content/simbios-bringing-biomedical-simulation-your-fingertips
Alain Laederach, PhD, a research scientist at the Wadsworth Center and an assistant...
Oct, 01, 2009
When you step on the gas pedal, you expect acceleration (and lots of it). Stomp on the brake to come safely to a stop in the rain. Finger the power-assisted steering wheel and the car obeys. Make a...
Oct, 01, 2009
How precise an image can fluorescence microscopy provide?
As modern optics and cell biology have flourished in recent years, they’ve each driven innovation in the other. Yet commonly employed imaging techniques, such as fluorescence microscopy, have...
Sep, 01, 2011
Dear Reader,
In this eighteenth issue of Biomedical Computation Review (BCR), we bring you a special edition devoted to the work of the magazine’s publisher: the Simbios National Center...
Oct, 01, 2009