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Now Available: User-Friendly RNA Dynamics Applications
Now, with just a few mouse clicks, anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can create graphic images of RNA molecules (using ToRNADo) or generate the ion environments that surround these...
Jan, 01, 2007
NCBCs Take Stock and Look Forward: Fruitful Centers Face Sunset

From hardened software to scientific productivity, the NCBCs have changed the landscape for biomedical computing.  What will happen when their funding expires?

It has been eight years since the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded the first National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBCs). With two or three years remaining in the program (...
ccb, i2b2, Magnet, na-mic, ncbo, NCIBI, Simbios
Oct, 19, 2012
OpenMM User Profile: Kim Branson, PhD

Kim Branson of Vertex Pharmaceuticals uses OpenMM as the GPU accelerator for Yank, a program for quickly estimating molecular binding affinities that he’s building with collaborators from Pande’s lab.

from http://biomedicalcomputationreview.org/content/simbios-bringing-biomedical-simulation-your-fingertips   Kim Branson, PhD, a research scientist in the modeling and simulation group at Vertex...
Oct, 01, 2009
OpenSim User Profile: Silvia Blemker, PhD

Simbios broadened University of Virginia’s Silvia Blemker’s horizons; and OpenSim is helping her understand hamstring injuries in sprinters.

from http://biomedicalcomputationreview.org/content/simbios-bringing-biomedical-simulation-your-fingertips   Silvia Blemker, PhD, has deep roots in Simbios. As a Stanford graduate student, she...
Oct, 01, 2009
Putting Heads Together

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
Share and Share Alike: A Proposed Set of Guidelines for Both Data and Software
A pair of challenges increasingly threaten the success of bioinformatics research: convincing biologists to share their data and convincing computational colleagues to share their code. Many of us...
Jul, 01, 2006
Slaying Villains Outside The Ivory Tower

Lessons on leaving academia

Just over a year ago, I left academia. I had been in that realm for 25 years, working in musculoskeletal biomechanics and human movement analysis. It was a move that might have surprised anyone who...
academia, publishing
Jan, 02, 2012
Infrastructure and Workforce Needs in Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology
In science, there is a need to balance research in domain sciences and the infrastructure to support that research. Basic research mediated through peer review is understood to produce useful...
Jan, 01, 2007
Solving the 3-D RNA Structure Puzzle with NAST
For proteins, structure information leads to an understanding of function. The same turns out to be true for ribozymes, ribosomal RNAs, and some other recently discovered RNAs. But mapping out that...
Mar, 01, 2009
Bringing the Fruits of Computation to Bear on Human Health: It’s a Tough Job but the NIH Has to Do It
The National Institutes of Health are on a mission: To understand and tackle the problems of human health. To make that daunting problem approachable, 15 of the 20 institutes divvy up human health...
Oct, 05, 2012
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