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The Eyes Have It: Biomechanical Models Explore Disorders of the Eye

Biomechanical models contribute to a better understanding of both the normal and the diseased eye.

Squint, and you can almost  make out that bird soaring over the horizon. But determining whether it’s a hawk or a raven will be nearly impossible for someone with myopia, also known as...
Feb, 19, 2013
Profiles in Computer Science Courage Part I: Reflections on the rewards of plunging into biomedicine

Interviews with Leonidas Guibas, Ron Shamir, Michael Black, David Haussler, Daphne Koller, Erin Halperin, Gene Myers, Paul Groth and Bruce Donald

To a computer scientist, the fields of biology and medicine can seem like the vast Pacific Ocean, says Leonidas Guibas, PhD, professor of computer science at Stanford University. “You go to the...
Careers, computer science
Apr, 01, 2011
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...
Jan, 01, 2006
The Top Ten Advances of the Last Decade & The Top Ten Challenges of the Next Decade

A recognition of biocomputing's successes and a prediction of what's to come

The last ten years have seen huge leaps in biomedical computing. We now have new ways to integrate and understand vast quantities of data; the capacity for multi-scale biological modeling; and a...
bioinformatics tools, biomedical computing, CAD, computational modeling, data mining, disease surveillance, dynamic modeling, education, eric jakobsson, function prediction, genetic association, genome annotation, in silico screening, medical informatics, neuromodeling, prosthetics, sequence alignment, structure prediction, systems biology, systems biomedicine, telemedicine, tomography
Jun, 01, 2005
Women in Data Science Conference

What happens when hundreds of talented female data scientists gather in the same place?

In November 2015, the Mobilize Center co-hosted the first Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference along with Walmart Labs, Stanford University’s Institute for Computational & Mathematical...
Apr, 01, 2016
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
NCBCs Take Stock and Look Forward: Fruitful Centers Face Sunset

From hardened software to scientific productivity, the NCBCs have changed the landscape for biomedical computing.  What will happen when their funding expires?

It has been eight years since the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded the first National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBCs). With two or three years remaining in the program (...
ccb, i2b2, Magnet, na-mic, ncbo, NCIBI, Simbios
Oct, 19, 2012
Stop Wheel Reinvention, Share Your Simulations!
Simbios has built a new publication repository that links publications to the research data and software behind them. The goal: to encourage and facilitate replication of published results and to...
Jan, 01, 2009
Top 10 Retrospective: Reflections on a Decade of Biomedical Computing

Experts reflect on challenges identified ten years ago.

The first issue of this magazine (June 2005) featured a story called “Top Ten Challenges of the Next Decade” written by Eric Jakobssen, PhD, who had recently left his position as Director...
Jun, 18, 2014

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