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
Confidence boost for modelers
It’s often said that all models are wrong, but some are useful. And one model that certainly falls in the “useful” category is the human lower-limb model that Scott Delp published...
Jun, 01, 2010
Using a 3-D computer model, scientists have simulated stem cells growing within a scaffold to predict which combination of properties will produce the most bone
Designing a scaffold, the internal structure that helps patients regenerate bone, is a delicate balancing act. The scaffold must be strong enough to protect the injury, porous enough to allow...
Jan, 01, 2008
Many tasks in biomedical data analysis, such as kinematic data collection, involve 3-D motion analysis which requires precise representation of an object’s position and orientation. ...
Apr, 01, 2006
Mimicking the social behavior of groups of animals to search for the minimum value of an objective function
Optimizing the solution to a problem occurs commonly in engineering and in nature. The Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm borrows ideas from nature and is a fairly new method of...
Jan, 01, 2007
The availability of free and open access data, models, and software indisputably accelerates scientific progress. Unfortunately, dissemination necessitates organization, documentation, and quality...
Jan, 01, 2010
Simulations illuminate the inner workings of blood at multiple levels
Understanding blood flow and coagulation is crucial to treating blood disorders such as hemophilia and thrombosis, and to dealing with diseases such as AIDS, malaria, and diabetes that have...
Jun, 07, 2012
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
Disentangling the different types of skeptics and what modelers can learn from each.
What are the telltale signs of a modeling talk at a biology conference? Just look for the sighs, shifting, and eye-rolling in the audience, says Donald C. Bolser, PhD, professor of physiological...
Jun, 05, 2012
The first four National Centers for Biomedical Computing take off
WHY NATIONAL CENTERS?
Four National Centers for Biomedical Computing were launched by the NIH in 2004 with $20 million in funding for each center over five years. The reason: We need to make...
Jun, 01, 2005
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