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A collaborative blog with posts contributed from researchers attending Computational Biology events all over the world. Interested in blogging for us? Email: ploscompbiol@plos.org. Image credit: Stoma et al.
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BOSC 2017 Day 2, Part 3: Keynote #BOSC2017 #ISMBECCB
BOSC 2017 Day 2, Part 3: Keynote #BOSC2017 #ISMBECCB
In which Nick Loman teaches us about making real-world differences to epidemics using genomics, the importance of speedy response to viral…
yoyehudi
Jul 28, 2017
BOSC 2017 Day 2, Part 2 #BOSC2017 #ISMBECCB
BOSC 2017 Day 2, Part 2 #BOSC2017 #ISMBECCB
This is the part of the story in which I summarise the final BOSC lightning talks, open data panel, and FAIR bingo. You may wish to read…
yoyehudi
Jul 25, 2017
A Journey Towards Personalized Medicine #ISMBECCB #ISMB2017
A Journey Towards Personalized Medicine #ISMBECCB #ISMB2017
Personalized medicine: what is it and why is it important? The simplest explanation is that every individual is different and every…
Venu Thatikonda
Jul 24, 2017
BOSC 2017, Day 2, part 1 #BOSC2017 #ISMBECCB
BOSC 2017, Day 2, part 1 #BOSC2017 #ISMBECCB
For a BOSC Intro, see my Day 1 post
yoyehudi
Jul 23, 2017
Bosc 2017, Day 1
Bosc 2017, Day 1
Open Source, Common Workflow Language, Containers, & War of the Package Managers
yoyehudi
Jul 22, 2017
Protein Data Science : A Perspective from Dr. Christine Orengo
Protein Data Science : A Perspective from Dr. Christine Orengo
Proteins form an integral part of biological systems, as they carry out the actual functional processes such as facilitating metabolism…
Sayane Shome
Mar 3, 2017
Hi, I’m a Computational Biologist
Hi, I’m a Computational Biologist
Would you hire me?
Ula La Paris
Jan 27, 2017
Data and the Future of Healthcare: Interview with Phil Bourne #ISMB16
Data and the Future of Healthcare: Interview with Phil Bourne #ISMB16
Phil Bourne is a founding Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Computational Biology and the Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS) at the National…
Ula La Paris
Nov 23, 2016
What do the birds speak about? #SfN16
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 that the meaningless mumbling starts making…
Anatoly Buchin
Nov 13, 2016
Live updates from #SfN16
Live updates from #SfN16
Hello world!
Anatoly Buchin
Nov 11, 2016
Bloggers Needed for Neuroscience 2016 Conference — #SfN16
Bloggers Needed for Neuroscience 2016 Conference — #SfN16
Neuroscience 2016
PLOS Comp Biol
Oct 21, 2016
Effectively Communicating with Computational Folks — #CBSymp16
Effectively Communicating with Computational Folks — #CBSymp16
I had the chance to hear a number of thoughtful perspectives broadly on the field of computational biology when I attended the…
Arjun Krishnan
Oct 20, 2016
The Pulse of Computational Biology at #CBSymp16
The Pulse of Computational Biology at #CBSymp16
The @PLOSCompBiol symposium #CBSymp16, held last Friday at the @NIH, saw the progenitors and practitioners of computational biology…
Arjun Krishnan
Sep 20, 2016
Seeing into the Dynamic Cell — #CBSymp16
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…
Ginger Hunter
Sep 19, 2016
The Future of Computational Biology — #CBSymp16
The Future of Computational Biology — #CBSymp16
What is computational biology? Where do we go from here?
Ginger Hunter
Sep 19, 2016
Pathogen Genomics for Public Health — #CBSymp16
Pathogen Genomics for Public Health — #CBSymp16
In the news recently, you’ve probably heard a lot about the risk the U.S. population is now facing from the Zika virus — a disease that is…
Ginger Hunter
Sep 19, 2016
Blogging #CBSymp16
Blogging #CBSymp16
Getting ready for the PLoS Computational Biology Symposium 2016 (or #CBSymp16), at the Bethesda Main Campus of the National Institutes of…
Ginger Hunter
Sep 16, 2016
#CBSymp16: Planting signposts on a rapidly-advancing field
#CBSymp16: Planting signposts on a rapidly-advancing field
I’ll be attending the PLoS Computational Biology Symposium — “Computational Biology: Past, Present, and Future” — at the National…
Arjun Krishnan
Sep 16, 2016
Computational Biology & Data - #ISMB16
Computational Biology & Data - #ISMB16
Data, big data, omics data, noisy data, a lack of data, data overflow, open data. Data is an increasingly critical part of life as a…
Ula La Paris
Sep 14, 2016
Student Council Symposium 2016 @ISMB16
Student Council Symposium 2016 @ISMB16
The ISCB Student Council Symposium (SCS) is a yearly recurrent student sattelite meeting of the ISMB. It’s main goal is to allow young…
Bart Cuypers
Jul 31, 2016
Research in an Industry Setting — Testimonials from #ISMB16
Research in an Industry Setting — Testimonials from #ISMB16
For most of us, a natural choice after completing a science masters is a research career. The path is clear: a Ph.D., followed perhaps by…
Ula La Paris
Jul 22, 2016
Artistic Science at ISMB #ISMB2016 #Art #Science
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…
Sayane Shome
Jul 11, 2016
Student Council Symposium at Orlando #SCSOrlando2016
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…
Ula La Paris
Jul 11, 2016
4 things I learned from keynote lectures at SCS2016
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…
Ben Siranosian
Jul 10, 2016
How do you organize an international symposium? #SCS2016
How do you organize an international symposium? #SCS2016
One word: communication.
Ben Siranosian
Jul 9, 2016
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