Recent Publications About Biomedical Computing
The field of biomedical computation is increasingly seen as a hot topic worthy of coverage in publications other than Biomedical Computation Review.
In June 2005, The Scientist will publish a...
Jun, 01, 2005
Principal component analysis of gene expression signatures may help determine prognosis
Researchers have long speculated that many of the genetic programs responsible for rapid growth of tumors are also important for the growth that occurs during normal embryonic development.
Now...
Oct, 01, 2010
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
2004 grant to create a 3-D model of the respiratory tract
In September 2004, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, received a $10 million grant to create a three-dimensional imaging and computer model of how...
Jun, 01, 2005
Thirty years ago, molecular biologists routinely constructed protein models out of brass rods (“Kendrew models”). In recent years, researchers put away such tinker toys and turned to...
Aug, 31, 2005
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
The National Cancer Institute launched the Integrative Cancer Biology Program (ICBP) in October 2004, providing a total of $15 million to nine multidisciplinary centers. The goal: to use predictive...
Jun, 01, 2005
Each year, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) gives an award to an outstanding paper that appeared in the pages of Science. This year the award—the Newcomb Cleveland...
Jun, 01, 2005
The Salivary Proteome Knowledge Base
If spit could talk, it might tell us whether we’re sick or healthy.
According to David Wong, DMD, DMSc—professor and associate dean of research at the School of Dentistry at the...
Jun, 01, 2005