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Protein Data Science : A Perspective from Dr. Christine Orengo

What do the birds speak about? #SfN16

We all know it takes a while to study the foreign language, but how does it happen? How come…

Seeing into the Dynamic Cell — #CBSymp16

The ability to look at really, really small stuff is one of the most powerful tools we have in biology. Microscopes have been around for hundreds of years, allowing us to peer into living tissues and cells to observe their organisation, how they move, how…

The Future of Computational Biology — #CBSymp16

What is computational biology? Where do we go from here?

These questions and more were addressed in today’s panels “Biggest challenges and greatest opportunities in Computational Biology over the next 10 years” and “How…

Blogging #CBSymp16

Getting ready for the PLoS Computational Biology Symposium 2016 (or #CBSymp16), at the Bethesda Main Campus of the National Institutes of Health.

The focus of the symposium is the ‘Past, Present, and Future’ of Computational Biology. I’ll be live blogging highlights of…

Computational Biology & Data - #ISMB16

Data, big data, omics data, noisy data, a lack of data, data overflow, open data. Data is an…

Artistic Science at ISMB #ISMB2016 #Art #Science

Scientists are not only creative and innovative in order to find answers to the universe’s questions, but can be creative in the way they present them as well! Examples of this creativity were shown during the poster session on the first day of…

Student Council Symposium at Orlando #SCSOrlando2016

I started off ISMB2016 by attending the Student Council Symposium. This meeting is dedicated to students, post docs, and young researchers in the fields of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and it gave me a chance to present my…

4 things I learned from keynote lectures at SCS2016

SCS2016 featured keynote lectures by two senior scientists in computational biology. John Quackenbush and Janet Thornton each shared scientific findings and expert advice to the students listening eagerly in the audience. I came away from…