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A Review of the Review

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...
Jun, 30, 2006
The Active Transport of Ideas

Researchers examine the connection between editorial boards of medical informatics and bioinformatics journals

How ideas spread gets at the very fabric of scholarly research and has been studied from many different angles.   Many studies examine person-to-person connectivity in social networks. Within a...
Jun, 30, 2007
Computing Has Changed Biology Forever

And people are starting to notice

In 1991, a prescient editorial in Nature by Harvard’s Walter Gilbert, PhD, (“Towards a paradigm shift in biology”) included these observations on the utility and impact of computing...
Mar, 31, 2006
The NCBC Centers: Incubators for the Next Generation of Science and Scientists

The NCBCs legacy of human capital

In this issue of Biomedical Computation Review, we feature a look at the NIH Roadmap National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) program. The NCBC program was a response to the recommendations...
Oct, 19, 2012
Recognizing and Encouraging Timely Dissemination
The availability of free and open access data, models, and software indisputably accelerates scientific progress. Unfortunately, dissemination necessitates organization, documentation, and quality...
Dec, 31, 2009
The Missing Link: A Sustainability Plan
As the NIH National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) program enters its final years of support, there is an opportunity to reflect on how this program has made a lasting impact on the research...
Oct, 31, 2013
Open Solutions for Biomedical Research
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
Moon Shots in Biomedical Computation

As leaders and participants of an effort to build an infrastructure that enables biomedical computing on a broad basis, it is incumbent upon us to define clear and challenging goals that will dazzle the world

The world changed when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon in 1969. Humans could survive outside the earth’s atmosphere! Science and engineering could achieve great things! And the nerds at the...
Dec, 31, 2007
Breathing Life Into Paper
The edict that academics must “publish or perish” serves not merely to advance careers, but also to stress the importance of transmitting knowledge from scientist to scientist and...
Dec, 31, 2005
Misconceptions of Time

Getting the molecular dynamics car out of the garage

For those who are not practitioners of dynamical simulation methods, such as molecular dynamics (MD), one of the biggest misconceptions relates to time. Specifically, the mismatch between the...
molecular dynamics simulations, time
Jun, 19, 2013
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