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What Value Could Fractals Add to Biomedical Image Analysis?

Could fractals join the collection of mathematical gems that propel biomedical image analysis to new heights?  

We collect large amounts of biomedical image data, hoping to glean insights into our biological world. While deep learning has become popular for finding features that, for example, distinguish...
Nov, 16, 2017
Packing It All In: Curricula for Biomedical Computing

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
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...
Nov, 01, 2013
It Takes a Village: Building the Next Generation of Biomedical Ontologies
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
Computational Approaches to Design Vaccines Faster

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 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
Successful Collaborations: Helping biomedicine and computation play well together

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/Counterpoint: Should there be a separate funding mechanism for the development and maintenance of software and infrastructure?
  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
Early BLAST Off

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
Neuron Models: Simpler Is Better

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
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