The OpenMultiMed Training School: Computational Tools for Systems Medicine (Porto, February 21-23, 2017) will provide training in concepts, methods and computational tools for multiscale systems medicine. Systems medicine is an emerging interdisciplinary framework that aims to improve our understanding, prevention and treatment of complex diseases by integrating knowledge and data across multiple levels of biomedical…
CompBioMed partner UCL was voted onto the the EUDAT CDI Council during the EUDAT Helsinki meeting on 23-27 Jan 2017. The EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) contributes to the work of the successful EUDAT initiative, to develop and maintain a persistent, long-lived data storage and sharing infrastructure that will run for at least 10 years.…
CompBioMed at PRACEdays 2017 16 May 2017, UPC, Barcelona, Spain PRACEdays 2017 is the central event of the European HPC Summit Week held at Barcelona Supercomputing Centre over four days (15th – 18th May 2017). CompBioMed has been allocated a dedicated 4-hour session in the afternoon of the 16th May where we will hold several talks focused…
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Victoria Stodden Title: Implementing Reproducibility in Computational Science Date: Monday, 20 February 2017, 11:00 a.m. Location: Carl-Bosch-Auditorium, Studio Villa Bosch, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, 69118 Heidelberg (Studio entrance between Villa Bosch and HITS) Short CV: Please see: http://stanford.edu/~vcs/Bio.html Contact: Benedicta Frech (Benedicta.Frech@h-its.org, phone: 06221-533-263) School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign…
Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield attended the annual Scientists meet the Media party in the Science Museum on January 23rd 2017, marking the 25th anniversary of the very first gathering to foster mutual understanding between the inhabitants of Fleet Street and Britain’s laboratories. Read more about the event here.
CompBioMed are running a training course at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) on 14-17 February 2017. The course aims to give a panorama on the use of HPC-based computational mechanics in Engineering and Environment through the projects that BSC are carrying on. This panorama includes the basics of what is behind the main tools: computational mechanics…
The European Centre of Excellence in Computational Medicine (CompBioMed) is a focus for technology transfer between academia, healthcare and industry in the field of biomedical computing. In CompBioMed, experts on computational medicine develops simulation and analysis software using the latest techniques to solve complex multi-scale and multi-physics problems. CompBioMed fosters a mentoring programme, the Innovation…
Great exposure of the work being conducted in the CompBioMed Centre of Excellence in the News section of Chemistry World. The article can be accessed here
For 37 hours this June the entirety of the 250,000 processor SuperMUC supercomputer (one of the largest computers in the world, located in the Leibniz Rechenzentrum, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, LRZ, near Munich, Germany) was dedicated to simulations investigating how candidate drugs work in a range of disease cases. The study was designed by a team…
Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield have contributed a critical piece in the latest Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Longevity Bulletin which can be viewed here