Balancing Breadth and Depth
The last decade saw a proliferation of training programs at the intersection of life science and computation, with more than 60 new degree and certificate programs launched in the United States alone...
Sep, 01, 2005
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...
Nov, 01, 2013
Although the notion of ontology has been around since Aristotle, the perceived need to develop ontologies in biomedicine has accelerated in recent years as investigators attempt to make sense of the...
Jan, 01, 2009
Systematic vaccine design offers hope of vaccines to prevent HIV or treat cancer
Like a “Wanted” poster distributed to a posse, peptide vaccines show the immune system a small sample (about eight amino acids) of a pathogen, training the body to seek and destroy...
Sep, 01, 2013
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
Collaborations are a fact of life for interdisciplinary fields like biomedical computing, and social scientists can help researchers understand how to make them more productive
Social scientists who study science have noticed a trend: More and more researchers are collaborating. Over the last twenty years, the number of co-authored papers has increased in every scientific...
Jul, 01, 2008
POINT/
NO: Grant applications for the development and maintenance of software and infrastructure should compete with basic research applications.
Biomedicine has a strong...
Jul, 01, 2009
Bringing Bioinformatics to Secondary Schools
Two decades ago at a genomics workshop for educators, a high school biology teacher isolated DNA from a snippet of his hair and got it sequenced. He then used a computer algorithm to compare his DNA...
Oct, 05, 2015
Competition inspires model improvements
During the summer of 2009, the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility in Stockholm dangled a nearly $10,000 cash prize in front of neuron modelers and challenged them to do better. And...
Jan, 01, 2010
T-Rex in the Slow Lane
by Kristen Cobb
Tyrannosaurus rex is often pictured baring its teeth, crouching, and running swiftly after its prey, but these images are largely based on human fancy...
Jan, 01, 2006
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