skip to main content
news
Free Access

How computers are changing biology

Published:01 May 2014Publication History
Skip Abstract Section

Abstract

Sophisticated computer models and simulations are replacing test tubes and beakers. This revolution in biology research is redefining medicine, agriculture, and more.

References

  1. Karplus, M., Levitt., M., Warshel, A. Development of Multiscale Models for Complex Chemical Systems, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2013/advanced- chemistryprize2013.pdf.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  2. Orenstein, Y., Linhart, C., Shamir, R. Assessment of Algorithms for Inferring Positional Weight Matrix Motifs of Transcription Factor Binding Sites using Protein Binding Microarray Data, PLoS ONE, 7 (9) e46145, 2012. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal. pone.0046145Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  3. Shaw, D.E., Maragakis, P., Lindorff-Larsen, K., Piana, S., Dror, R.O., Eastwood, M.P., Bank, J.A., Jumper, J.M., Salmon, J.K., Shan, T., Wriggers, W. Atomic-Level Characterization of the Structural Dynamics of Proteins, Science, Vol. 330, October, 15, 2010.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  4. Shaw, D.E., Dror, R.O., Salmon, J.K., Grossman, J.P., Mackenzie, K.M., Bank, J.A., Young, C., Deneroff, M.M., Batson, B., Bowers, K.J., Chow, E., Eastwood, M.P., Ierardi, D.J., Klepeis, J.L., Kuskin, J.S., Larson, R.H., Lindorff-Larsen, K., Maragakis, P., Moraes, M.A., Piana, S., Shan, Y., Towles, B. Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Anton, SC'09 Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis, Article No. 39. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library

Index Terms

  1. How computers are changing biology

          Recommendations

          Comments

          Login options

          Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

          Sign in

          Full Access

          • Published in

            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 57, Issue 5
            May 2014
            110 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2594413
            • Editor:
            • Moshe Y. Vardi
            Issue’s Table of Contents

            Copyright © 2014 ACM

            Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

            Publisher

            Association for Computing Machinery

            New York, NY, United States

            Publication History

            • Published: 1 May 2014

            Permissions

            Request permissions about this article.

            Request Permissions

            Check for updates

            Qualifiers

            • news
            • Popular
            • Pre-selected

          PDF Format

          View or Download as a PDF file.

          PDF

          eReader

          View online with eReader.

          eReader

          HTML Format

          View this article in HTML Format .

          View HTML Format