Data’s Identity Crisis: The Struggle to Name It, Describe It, Find It, and Publish It
How can we make data sharing less daunting in order to address the scientific reproducibility problem?
Alexander Gelfand
In the midst of the Ebola epidemic, modelers tried to predict its spread, with some success. Now they’re reflecting on the lessons learned.
The Rise of Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Alexander Gelfand
Researchers now have a tool for imaging the structures of biological molecules—and they are reaping the benefits big time.
Esther Landhuis
How are mathematics and systems approaches shedding light on gut formation and microbial interaction?
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A Turning Point for (Data) Science
Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD
Why open science is essential for scientific progress.
Women in Data Science Conference
Katharine Miller
What happens when hundreds of talented female data scientists gather in the same place?
Accelerating Search of Compressed Data
Kristin Sainani, PhD
Researchers have found that biological data are amenable to fast search.
SimTK ReLaunch: Back at the Cutting Edge
Katharine Miller
What does it take to make a great biocomputing repository even better?
Single-Cell Genomics: Can Bioinformatics Unlock its Potential?
Kristin Sainani, PhD
The tools to sequence the genomes of individual cells yield data that’s noisy and somewhat unreliable. What bag of tricks can bioinformaticians use to address these challenges?
Privacy-protecting analysis of distributed big data
Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD, Shuang Wang, PhD, Stephanie Feudjio Feupe, Lucila Ohno-Machado, PhD
A practical solution for sharing patient data while maintaining privacy protections.
Automating Literature Surveillance
Katharine Miller