The Next Web (TNW) just published an interesting story addressing the problem of centralizing ongoing attempts of reproducibility. Could centralization save tremendous amounts of time and energy? “'Unreproducible work wastes the time and effort of well-meaning researchers, and authors should strive to ensure at least one public implementation of their work exists,' ContributionSecure14, who preferred [...]
We've all ecountered this funny, but depressing experience in science and research. This video tells an all-too-familiar story. https://youtu.be/N2zK3sAtr-4
NPR has published How Herd Immunity Works — And What Stands In Its Way, an online model of viral spread. The rapidity of heard immunity variants, based on a number of factors. In this article, NPR demonstrates major factors in scenarios using multi-scale modeling.
The New York Times adapted PHICOR (Public Health Informatics, Computational, and Operation Research)'s multi-scale computer model to create an interactive tool in an article just published over the weekend: When Could the United States Reach Herd Immunity? It’s Complicated. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/20/us/us-herd-immunity-covid.html
Save the date for HARMONY 2021 Date: March 22nd to March 26th Place: online http://co.mbine.org/events/HARMONY_2021 HARMONY 2021 will be an online-only meeting similar to COMBINE 2020 (http://co.mbine.org/events/COMBINE_2020). Most of the day will be scheduled by the communities as breakouts. In addition, there will be some time each day for community discussion and wrap-ups of breakouts [...]
As the result of a mandate from Congress, the National Academies will explore the issues of reproducibility and replication in scientific and engineering research. The committee will explore what is known and identify areas that may need more information to ascertain the extent of reproducibility and replication, review current activities to improve reproducibility and replication [...]
Dr. Matthias König from Institute for Theoretical Biology, Institute of Biology, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany has published a very interesting paper, "Executable Simulation Model of the Liver". He highlights the challenges of reproducibility in computational modeling.
Inviting interested researchers to join a new Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG) – Multi-scale Modeling Consortium (MSM) Working Group (WG) entitled MULTISCALE MODELING AND VIRAL PANDEMICS. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has provided a striking example of the real-world importance of mathematical and computational modeling. Though significant work has been done on epidemiology models, we [...]
The Combine 2020 schedule has been released for this year's online virtual meeting. Due to the current COVID-19 situation, COMBINE 2020 will be an online (virtual) meeting from October 5th (Monday) to October 9th (Friday). Organizers are providing a robust schedule that takes into account all time zones around the world, a real 24 hour [...]
From the September 2020 PLoS Computational Biology the peer-reviewed article "A compiler for biological networks on silicon chips". https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008063 Author summary: We present a “silicon compiler” that is capable of translating biochemical models encoded in the SBML standard into specialized analog cytomorphic hardware and transfer function–level simulations of such hardware. We show how the compiler [...]
