The National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research has recently completed the first stage of an ambitious program to expand the computational infrastructure and software tools needed to...
Jan, 01, 2006
New computational model simulates how particles in the air get deposited in the lungs during breathing
Depending on their nature, microscopic particles suspended in air—called aerosols—...
Apr, 01, 2009
Bioinformatics and computational biology enable microbiome research
This past June, 200 members of the NIH-funded Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Consortium published a slew of papers offering fresh insights into the role microbial communities play in the human body...
Oct, 22, 2012
Kids often claim they are just as smart—if not smarter—than their parents. Childish nonsense? Perhaps not, according to a recent study. It turns out that young children’s brains are...
Oct, 01, 2009
To fit inside the cell nucleus, DNA molecules wrap around tiny protein spindles known as histones. These histones carry an intriguing biochemical code that helps decide a cell’s destiny—...
Apr, 01, 2010
Hidden Markov models estimate DNA loop kinetics
The hidden Markov model—a statistical model used for decades in fields as diverse as speech recognition and climatology—has received an update and a new application. Researchers at the...
Apr, 01, 2007
The clear winner: Big Data
Several biomedical computing projects received big money in the fall of 2012. If there’s one clear winner, it’s “Big Data”: three of the grants focus on building new...
Feb, 19, 2013
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
Jill Higginson at the University of Delaware uses OpenSim to study stroke.
from http://biomedicalcomputationreview.org/content/simbios-bringing-biomedical-simulation-your-fingertips
Jill Higginson, PhD, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University...
Oct, 01, 2009
Computationally modeling the hot spots
Tiny gold particles that absorb laser light and convert it into heat are a promising therapy for destroying tumors. However, controlling the temperature of such gold nanoshells is crucial: The shells...
Jan, 01, 2010