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
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
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
Ever-Expanding and Heterogeneous
How universities are struggling to define core competencies, adapt to big data, and tailor curricula in this constantly changing interdisciplinary field
During the last ten years, the number...
Oct, 07, 2015
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?
To study genomes, researchers have typically pooled the genetic material from thousands of cells together. But this approach can only get at “average genomes” or “average...
Apr, 01, 2016
Biomedical computing at academic research centers has been compared to a cottage industry. Lots of individuals work away on their focused research projects, generating useful algorithms. But quite...
Jan, 01, 2009
MICCAI 2007, the 10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention.
What: MICCAI typically attracts over 600 world leading scientists, engineers and...
Oct, 01, 2007
The clear winner: Big Data
Several biomedical computing projects received big money in the fall of 2012. If there’s one clear winner, it’s “Big Data”: three of the grants focus on building new...
Feb, 19, 2013
Upcoming biocomputing conferences
The 6th Annual International Conference on Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB2007) coordinated by the Life Sciences Society.
WHAT: This conference is designed for any scientist interested in...
Jul, 01, 2007
Imaging and bioinformatics tools dig deep.
Uncontrolled writhing and jerking. Poor judgment. Depression and irritability. It’s hard to imagine how this unnerving mix of movement, cognitive and psychiatric problems arises from a single...
Jun, 18, 2014
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