Audra Geras combines a long-term love for the intricate complexities of nature and artistic passion in her biomedical art business. Her clients range from advertising agencies to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Depicting a bioscape or ...

Just as calculus helps physicists understand and model the mechanical world, computational models can help us model complex biological systems and reason and make predictions about them. Computer graphics and visualization techniques and algorithms&#...

Even a brief perusal of artist Anna Tanczos' Web site reveals a variety of styles: abstract constructions, representational imagery, or works inspired by scientific modeling—whether it's fatty acids, hemoglobin, or DNA. This article describes Tanczos' ...

With the prevalence of structural and genomic data, molecular biology has become a human-guided,computer-assisted endeavor. The computer assists the essential human function in two ways: Forexploring scientific data, it searches for and tests scientific ...

Java 3D is a mature API for developing 3D applications, particularly in bioinformatics, where Java and Perl are the preferred programming languages due to their small learning curve and runtime multi-operating system support. We have wrapped a CAVE ...

Developed with optimization and access as its central tenets, the simulation aimed originally to simulate a biologically diverse landscape (initially tropical islands) and simulate the ape inhabitant's cognitive processes. The cognitive simulation ...

Life science research is increasingly reliant on computation, as affirmed by the recent mapping of the human genome and the analysis questions it poses. Our task is to make sense of these genetic blueprints to develop treatments and therapies for ...

We see plants nearly everywhere in the environment around us. Why, then, do we have only a few satisfactory plant models? We think it's because, so far, creating plants is a job for experts who can handle the large structural and geometrical complexity ...

Relationships between joint pathology and kinematics are well known in orthopedics, though generally they remain unquantified: painful joints may exhibit abnormal motion and, vice versa, chronic nonphysiological motions may lead to joint pathology. ...

Just as a numerical spreadsheet enables exploration of numbers, a visualization spreadsheet enables exploration and operations on visual forms of information, which are contained in cells in a grid. In this article we suggest principles behind the ...

X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy produce data of unprecedented detail for the study of life's machinery: the proteins that carry out the bulk of the functions of living organisms. from bacteria to humans. These ...