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
University of California, San Diego’s Alison Marsden uses SimVascular to do patient-specific modeling of blood flow for surgical applications.
from http://biomedicalcomputationreview.org/content/simbios-bringing-biomedical-simulation-your-fingertips
Alison Marsden, PhD, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering...
Oct, 01, 2009
MICCAI 2007, the 10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention.
What: MICCAI typically attracts over 600 world leading scientists, engineers and...
Oct, 01, 2007
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
One of the tasks faced by every scientific programmer sooner or later is the need to compute the derivative f'(x) from code for the original function f(x). This need arises in design and...
Jul, 01, 2006
What this magazine has covered so far.
This, the sixth issue of this magazine (and the final issue of Volume 2), provides a good opportunity for reflection on where we’ve been and where we’re headed. Three years ago, the...
Jul, 01, 2006
Epistasis explored
When people work together, some individuals may hinder team performance—essentially masking the abilities of other members—while others may boost the group’s performance beyond the...
Sep, 01, 2011
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...
Jan, 02, 2012
Transparent peer review, replication studies, and journals of negative results all suggest change is on the horizon
As I was writing this editorial, I learned about yet another scientific paper being retracted. This time it was a genetics paper in Science, one of the hundreds of retractions that the blog...
Sep, 01, 2011
In the world of molecular dynamics (MD), researchers often need to analyze and extract meaningful results from millions of conformations. Existing software for accomplishing this task focuses on...
Oct, 01, 2009