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    Processes Parallel Execution Using Grid Wizard Enterprise

    The field of high-performance computing (HPC) has provided a wide array of strategies for supplying additional computing power to the goal of reducing the total “clock time” required to complete various comput...

    Marco Ruiz in Biomedical Informatics (2009)

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    Enabling Public Data Sharing: Encouraging Scientific Discovery and Education

    To promote scientific discovery and education, the federated Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) Data Repository (BDR) supports data storage, sharing, querying, and downloading for the biomedical co...

    Christine Fennema-Notestine in Biomedical Informatics (2009)

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    System Biology of Gene Regulation

    A famous joke story that exhibits the traditionally awkward alliance between theory and experiment and showing the differences between experimental biologists and theoretical modelers is when a University send...

    Michael Baitaluk in Biomedical Informatics (2009)

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    Methods of Information Geometry in Computational System Biology (Consistency between Chemical and Biological Evolution)

    Interest in simulation of large-scale metabolic networks, species development, and genesis of various diseases requires new simulation techniques to accommodate the high complexity of realistic biological netw...

    Vadim Astakhov in Biomedical Informatics (2009)

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    Applications of Bioinformatics to Protein Structures: How Protein Structure and Bioinformatics Overlap

    In this chapter, we will focus on the role of bioinformatics to analyze a protein after its protein structure has been determined. First, we present how to validate protein structures for quality assurance. Th...

    Gye Won Han, Chris Rife, Michael R. Sawaya in Biomedical Informatics (2009)

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    Brain Model of Text Animation as a Data Mining Strategy

    Imagination is the critical point in develo** of realistic intelligence (AI) systems. One way to approach imagination would be simulation of its properties and operations. We developed two models “Brain Netw...

    Tamara Astakhova, Vadim Astakhov in Biomedical Informatics (2009)

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    Single Sign-On in a Grid Portal

    Single Sign-On (SSO) is a practical requirement for software applications, which rely on distributed, networked services requiring authentication. SSO is as much a convenient feature for users as it is a secur...

    Ramil V. Manansala in Biomedical Informatics (2009)

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    Management of Information in Distributed Biomedical Collaboratories

    Organizing and annotating biomedical data in structured ways has gained much interest and focus in the last 30 years. Driven by decreases in digital storage costs and advances in genetics sequencing, imaging, ...

    David B. Keator in Biomedical Informatics (2009)

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    Mediator Infrastructure for Information Integration and Semantic Data Integration Environment for Biomedical Research

    This paper presents current progress in the development of semantic data integration environment which is a part of the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN; http://www.nbirn.net

    Jeffrey S. Grethe, Edward Ross, David Little, Brian Sanders in Biomedical Informatics (2009)

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    Current Computational Methods for Prioritizing Candidate Regulatory Polymorphisms

    Discovery of DNA sequence variants responsible for human phenotypic variation is key to advances in molecular diagnostics and medicines. Historically, variants that alter the protein-coding sequence of genes h...

    Stephen Montgomery in Biomedical Informatics (2009)

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    Protein Structure Prediction Based on Sequence Similarity

    The observation that similar protein sequences fold into similar three-dimensional structures provides a basis for the methods which predict structural features of a novel protein based on the similarity betwe...

    Lukasz Jaroszewski in Biomedical Informatics (2009)

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    Knowledge Discovery via Machine Learning for Neurodegenerative Disease Researchers

    Ever-increasing size of the biomedical literature makes more precise information retrieval and tap** into implicit knowledge in scientific literature a necessity. In this chapter, first, three new variants o...

    I. Burak Özyurt, Gregory G. Brown in Biomedical Informatics (2009)