A Seller’s Market for Biomedical Data Science Jobs
Just pondering the current job market for biomedical data scientists is likely to put a smile on the faces of many in the field.
“The bottom line is, compared to other disciplines,...
Oct, 07, 2015
A support vector machine approach to cataloguing NIH expenditures
Philip Bourne’s recent appointment as Associate Director for Data Science at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) signals the growing importance of bioinformatics and biomedical computing in...
Jun, 18, 2014
When it comes to deciphering the health of the body, the blood carries a potential mother lode of protein clues. Given the ease of extracting blood, such proteins could serve as efficient health...
Dec, 31, 2008
An opportunity and a challenge
When discussing biocomputation startups, there’s one thing people agree on: These days, they don’t generate much excitement among venture capitalists.
“In the 1990s, there...
Mar, 31, 2007
AgentCell is the first simulation program to model a biochemical network at the molecular, single cell, and population levels simultaneously.
When a bacterium swims toward food, it follows a chaotic path, alternating between spinning randomly and driving forward, or ‘tumbling’ and ‘running.’ Computer scientists at...
Aug, 31, 2005
Cancer proteins highly interactive
New research suggests that cancer proteins, like influential people, have the most connections. These results, from an extensive study of how human proteins interact with one another, could help...
Dec, 31, 2006
Leveraging big data, modeling, and computational biology to create new protocols
Most scientists seeking to turn back adult cells’ developmental clocks rely on go-to recipes that—when followed just right—will yield stem cells. A dash of one reprogramming factor...
Jan, 08, 2015
HAP-SAMPLE takes real data as the template for simulations
Trying to find the genetic causes of a human disease requires lots of data. These days, researchers scan the genomes of people who do and don’t have a particular disease and look for genome-...
Dec, 31, 2007
Biomedical applications of ABMs are taking off.
In the early 1990s, when James A. Glazier, PhD, first became interested in
using agent-based modeling to simulate biological phenomena, the field was so new that he had to borrow ideas...
Sep, 01, 2013
What kinds of training opportunities are needed ?
Things change quickly in the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. “New technology comes along and whoa! You need to design a new course!” says Claudia Neuhauser, PhD,...
Sep, 01, 2013