From pangolin scales that can stand up to hard hits to colourful but sturdy peacock feathers, nature can do a lot with a few simple molecules. In a new review paper, Peter Coveney and a team of international researchers have laid out how engineers are taking inspiration from the biological world—and designing new kinds of…
CompBioMed will be hosting a free screening at the Amsterdam EyeMuseum from 16:00CET on 2 December 2022. At the event, we will premiere our new film visualising how supercomputers can help combat the next pandemic. The short film, created by the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, will be followed by a panel discussion with 4 speakers, including the…
CompBioMed’s 28th e-seminar took place on 23 November 2022 and focused on Predicting and preventing bone fractures with HPC. Femur fracture is a catastrophic event for elderly women, resulting in severe impairment of life quality or even death in many cases. One of the major risk factor is osteoporosis, an asymptomatic metabolic disorder that causes…
CompBioMed will be at the Le Studium Conference on “Cardiovascular Modelling: Basic Science to Clinical Translation” to be held in Tours (France) on 13th and 14th December 2022. The symposium is being organised, managed and sponsored by the Le Studium Institute for Advanced Studies – Loire Valley and the INSERM Unit iBrain Imagerie et Cerveau.…
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CompBioMed’s 27th e-seminar took place on 19 October 2022 focused on DNA Point Mutations in the Absence and Presence of Electric Fields. DNA mutations can occur spontaneously or can be induced by external factors such as electric fields, intercalators, radiations, etc. One of the point mutation mechanisms, known as the Löwdin’s mechanism, is the double…
The CompBiomed centre of excellence organised, in collaboration with the VPH Institute, a special session on the The role of exascale computing in computational biomedicine at the VPH2022 conference in Porto (PL) on Friday 9 September 2022. The session included four speakers from our consortium. Mariano Vasquez (BSC) showed concrete examples of how Alya can…
The CompBioMed AHM is coming back in person this year from 22-24 June. We will try and host it as a hybrid event with the talks and discussions streamed to those that cannot attend in person. We will be visiting the beautiful city of Bologna at the CINECA site, just north of the city this…
CompBioMed’s 25th e-seminar took place on 28 July 2022 and focused on Addressing the challenge of drug discovery with Machine Learning and Exascale computing This seminar introduced an innovative workflow that couples machine learning (ML) and physics-based (PB) methods to accelerate the traditional process of computer aided drug discovery. PB methods compensate for the sparsity…
CompBioMed’s 26th e-seminar took place on 2 September 2022 and focused on Phase III In Silico Trials of new treatments for osteoporosis using exascale computers. In this seminar Prof Viceconti reviews the challenges we are facing in transforming a digital twin in healthcare solution called BoBCAT, which predict the force required to fracture any bone…