Modelers should take the lead.
Many collaborators 1 with whom modelers2 work have little or no training in modeling3 and so it is natural that they may be cautious,...
Jun, 05, 2012
What can open-source software do for biomedical research? Based on our experience at the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC), we believe that open source software can be used very...
Mar, 01, 2009
A recognition of biocomputing's successes and a prediction of what's to come
The last ten years have seen huge leaps in biomedical computing. We now have new ways to integrate and understand vast quantities of data; the capacity for multi-scale biological modeling; and a...
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Jun, 01, 2005
New approaches extend multiscale models to represent cellular mesoscales and bridge from molecular to cellular models
In an era of increasingly comprehensive molecular characterizations of living systems, computation has emerged as a key technology to facilitate integrative understanding of biological mechanisms....
Feb, 19, 2013
Defining biomedical computation
Looking back at some of the intellectual achievements of the last half century, it is clear that humankind has made tremendous progress in many areas, but arguably none more so than in the two areas...
Jun, 01, 2005
Students, not faculty, are the ones in charge
Outwardly, the Biomedical Computation at Stanford (BCATS) conference resembles other academic conferences: Researchers converge to hear about the latest developments in their field and to...
Jan, 01, 2008
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
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
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
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic and IBM have each built computer pipelines for extracting useful information from unstructured notes in patient charts, such as physician’s notes and pathology...
Jul, 01, 2009