Biomedical Computation Review

Features

Spring 2009
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Table of Contents

Reverse Engineering the Brain
BY ROBERTA FREIDMAN, PhD

Bringing the Fruits of Computation to Bear on Human Health:
It's a Tough Job but the NIH Has to Do It
BY KATHARINE MILLER

Departments

Guest Editorial
Open Solutions for Biomedical Research
BY RON KIKINIS, PhD, AND TINA KAPUR, PhD

Point/Counterpoint
Clinical Data Repositories: Less than meets the eye OR More valuable than you'd expect?
RUSS B. ALTMAN, MD, PhD, VS. ISAAC KOHANE, MD, PhD

Simbios News
Solving the 3-D RNA Structure Puzzle with NAST
BY JOY P. KU, PhD

BY CHANDRA SHEKHAR, PhD, KRISTIN SAINANI, PhD, RACHEL TOMPA, PhD, AND KASPAR MOSSMAN, PhD

Decoding Promotion
The Brain in Transition
The Fate of Inhaled Particles
Predicting Vaccine Efficacy
RNA Families Set Up House In Wikipedia
A Model Neuron

Under the Hood
Implicit Representation of Biological Shapes and Forms
BY BIN DONG

Seeing Science
Building RNA 3-D Structure
BY KATHARINE MILLER

Supported by the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research Grant U54 GM072970. Information on the National Centers for Biomedical Computing can be obtained from http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/bioinformatics/.